[Meta] Mentor Meeting - Saturday, 3 October 2015 UTC 20:30

Saturday, 3 October 20:30 UTC

DrupalCon Barcelona

1. follow-up on“Barcelona Friday Sprint Brainstorm” Document.

1. doc was helpful, brainstorming will be helpful again when we are in RC

2. 2 tables did (simplified) major issue triage on friday at sprint (worked better than irc office hours). maybe because face to face, maybe more experienced people (but still new contributors). people didn't want to do it all day. closing issues didn't yield commit credits.

3. contacting people

2. Barcelona retrospective

1. talk about different mentor styles: table sitting vs butterfly

2. need to follow up on the live commit issue that didn't get in

3. at schedule time for mentor issue triage (tuesday)

1. table not labeled, add signage

2. find someone to lead this before the con

3. This was an issue in Los Angeles as well.

4. at schedule time for mentor orientation (tuesday)

1. find someone to own the meeting

2. being 30 minutes early to label tables

3. being in the sprint room worked (says cathy)

5. suggested shifting time of start to 10am, mentors get there at 9:15am

6. DA helpful

1. Meeting with rachel after, asked for:

1. mic in

2. new red sign for booth with hours (get it without logo and without hours)

3. have a slide for logo and hours

2. need to get attendance numbers. they should go in http://bit.ly/sprintBarcelona

3. DA says will send out a survey to sprint participants - friday only

1. Mentor Feedback survey results

1. time to revisit sprint tools  https://www.drupal.org/node/2233509 @heddn

2. @YesCT: checklist for mentors

DrupalCon Asia

1. 18-21 February, Sprint day is Sunday, 21 February

2. Extended sprints check-in

3. Mentor sign-up check-in

1. 17 mentors signed up

2. automatic email sent after sign-up (from the webform - fixed)

3. @todo alimac follow up with DA about displaying mentor names on mentored core sprint page

1. send email to jacob and rachel, cc cathy

4. Created Mentor Spreadsheet of Awesomeness for DrupalCon Asia @todo alimac

5. @todo alimac - start emailing mentors

1. MailChimp automation - follow up with DA

2. first-time mentor email track?

6. Roles? (global and local?) https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring/mentored-sprint-leads

7. Mentors coming to Mumbai

8. mailchimp email about search for leads?

DrupalCon New Orleans

1. Dates are 9 May - 13 May

2. Update from Cathy about looking for a new Sprint and Mentoring Lead https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring/mentored-sprint-leads

3. dinarcon will post to http://groups.drupal.org/mentoring announcing what roles we need filled.

Documentation

1. Documentation check-in

2. need a summary of points from Mentoring at events (append to the bottom of the doc)

3. timeline for mentors (and for lead for the room for the day)

4. timeline for sprint participants

IRC check-in

1. Follow-up on adding a second time slot after talking to mentors at Barcelona

2. 1 IRC slot after Barcelona - 3 to 5 participants

3. RC approaching might be the reason

Novice issue triage

Major issue triage

1. Follow up on Major issue triage lite.

Wrap-up

1. Ask if there is anything people wanted to bring up that we did not

2. At the end of meeting identify priority action items, mark them @todo and document who volunteers to do them. Identify which should have issues for them in the Mentoring project issue queue.

Next meeting: Saturday, 7 November, 2015 20:30 UTC