On 07/27/2015 02:02 PM, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
Ideally, we want the applicants to start studying before they show up to be trained, so that they have already good questions to ask and doubts to clear. Also, they'd manage to engage with trainers and mentors ahead of time. In this ideal world, as soon as someone expresses interest in Upstream Training, that person is matched with a mentor and starts getting ready.
I'm thinking that this time instead of Eventbrite we may use a google Form to collect candidates and engage them with mentors immediately, as they sign up. We may quickly put something together with Forms, IFTT or zapier and Trello.
The process would look like this:
1) signup on Google Forms, zapier creates a new card on Trello with the details. 2) mentor picks up the card, engages with candidate, looks for a bug to work on, sets a communication channel (IRC preferrably):
- if candidate engages, the spot is assigned and training continues in Tokyo - if candidate doesn't respond to mentor, the card is marked 'inactive' and the spot considered free for Tokyo
3) after the in person training in Tokyo, mentorship continues and cards are moved forward as the trainee progresses.
How does this look?
That sounds like a good plan. If we can get a lot of the mundane details out of the way before class, we can focus more attention on the OpenStack specific details. I started a Google form to collect information. What am I missing and what should I change? http://goo.gl/forms/qAr3N8rdYs One thought when we open registration: we can change the text of that form to warn students that we are putting them on a waiting list once we have exhausted all of our open positions. I'll get something started that will let us sync the form results to trello for progress tracking. Concerning mentors: should the automation automatically assign a mentor based on student interest area and mentor load? (Perhaps allow mentors to say how many students they are comfortable working with, and auto-assign up to that number.) Thanks, Tim -- Tim Freund 913-207-0983 | @timfreund http://tim.freunds.net