# DrupalCon Nashville 2018 - Mentoring BoF Notes

## Suggested Topics
* Mapping types of mentoring in Drupal community
* Resources for mentoring
* Challenges in mentoring
* Contributor personas
* How to find mentors
* Managing occasional or "drive-by" mentors

## Challenges in Mentoring
* Imposter Syndrome
* Path into mentorship is unclear. How can we clarify this?
* Attrition of attention.  How can we work assuming that attrition will happen? How can we best support intermitent availability?
* Maybe we need a mentor leader or some form of accountability for ongoing mentee support
* Development of personal relatniships 
* Pairing/moving forward beyond sprints
* $$
* Burnout/overlap with day job work
* Lack of project management, tough to find a good ticket
* Tracking mentees over time
* Understanding mentoring history
* Terminology/group names --how do we communicate the message of what we do? (e.g. sprint vs core mentoring, DDI contrib team, etc)

## Resources for Mentoring (both existing & desired)
* How to find documentation, we need translatable official documentation
* How to organize a camp or sprint
* Sprint tools
* Slack/DDI contrib team
* d.o as official documentation home 
* can d.o contain all mentoring efforts?
* Drupalize.me, BuildAModule, etc.
* Multilingual mentorship
* User guide has limited scope, could we improve documentation around mentorship as part of documentation initiative? 
* Money for tools, tickets for mentors
* What can the DA do for us?

## How to Find Mentors
* List of willing mentors on d.o? 
* #mentoring vs. #support
* Do we mentor beyond code contribution? e.g. camps, working groups, careeers, etc
* Expanding our mentor bios & skills on d.o
* Talk to Megan S. re: expanding mentorship visibility & definition
* OFfice hours.io for open mentorship office hours
* Let's measure our efforts
* Pairing with new DrupalCon attendees
* Go to First-Time Attendee BoF for matching with new folks
* How can we link people by needs? Some kind of database? 

## To Do
* Call Megan S. (Kay)
* Work with Documentation initiative to expand mentoring documentation (Mauricio)
* Share notes from this BoF in the issue queue (Tara)
* Increase sponsorship (for banners, postcards, dinner) (Kay)
* Ask DA to add "Mentor" to badges like they have "Speaker", "Sponsor" (Tara)
* How can we get more involved with First-Time Attendee events (e.g. socials, BoFs)? 
* Brainstorm ideas for higher visibility at DrupalCon
* Bring info from this discussion to monthly meetings (particularly re: mentorship ecosystem) 
* Expand our bios on drupal.org to feature more info re: mentoring (e.g. skills, preferred language, ways to contact for help)