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Getting past mentors to work up a sort of introduction to mentoring as a
presentation for the summit would be great.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Eoghan Glynn <eglynn at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> > > The OPW (or Outreachy as it's now known) is not in my experience short
> of
> > > applicants. In order to increase its scope, it's more likely to need
> > > sponsor
> > > companies donating the stipend cost, and more mentors to contribute
> their
> > > time, energy, and ideas.
> >
> > Just to be super-clear on this: We're not running out of money for
> > Outreachy
>
> No suggestion intended that the foundation is short of money, I'm sure
> their cup runneth over.
>
> However, I seem to remember a scramble in previous cycles to line up
> sponsor companies in time to cover the cost of OPW internship spots.
>
> > the *mentors* is the scarce resource.
>
> Yes, this.
>
> So, the key question that I was posing previously, was how to increase
> supply so as to address this scarcity.
>
> One approach would be to encourage member companies to fund this effort
> (via donations of their employees' time). Another potential idea would be
> to give some public recognition to the mentors, say at summit. A third
> would be smooth the path to taking on the mentorship role with practical
> and legal advice on how to make it work.
>
> > > This is were the foundation could potentially step in and make a
> > > difference,
> > > say by encouraging member companies to sponsor internship spots, or by
> > > indemnifying potential mentors (currently mentors must personally
> indemnify
> > > GNOME).
> >
> > Developing a serious mentorship program has been on my todo list for a
> > while but time is scarce too. All I could come up with was asking
> > volunteer mentors to sign up on https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mentors
> > and get ready to consolidate the material related to
> > internships/mentoring opportunites on the wiki
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Category:Internship
> >
> > I and Anne have toyed with the idea of a mentoring program since... San
> > Diego, IIRC, explored a couple of paths. If you think the time is ripe
> > to invest more resources let's do it: anybody wants to take the lead?
>
> FWIW I'd be happy to provide my $0.02 of input to help whoever ends up
> leading such an effort.
>
> Cheers,
> Eoghan
>
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