2023 Mentorship Goals

--- title: 2023 Mentorship Goals tags: goals, 2023 --- **DRAFT** # 2023 Mentorship goals * 150 mentees participating across all programs * Increase number of projects participation * Reduce percentage of failed/withdrawn mentees * suggested goal: < 5% * last year we had a failure/withdrawl rate (combined) of about 9.5% * Increase diversity of participants * How do we increase awareness in geographical diverse places? * How do we define diversity? (DE&I) * Students in academic communities in new locations * Latin America * Africa * Collect better data * reach out to LFX * ex: more age ranges * ex: define income classes * ex: terms for education (highschool vs college -- can be interchangeable in some places), maybe use qualification earned instead? **LF Team** * Work with LF research team to better understand trends: * *What is the core information we need to understand e.g. outcomes, post-program pathways?* * ex: How many mentees are still contributing a year later, 5 years? * ex: What jobs are mentees doing a year later, 5 years? * ex: How are mentors benefiting from participation? (are they using their mentor experience as a data point in their promo packages) * *What will we do with this information once obtained e.g. marketing strategy, resource/collateral development* * Work with LF training to create a training course for mentors * *Key curriculum, desired outcomes* * *What are the primary focus areas by which we would determine course criteria/content?* * proposal writing * mentee selection * feedback and evaluation of mentees * what makes a good mentor * Work with LF mentoring admins to reach out to universities to work with co-op programs * *Desired outcomes, key objectives?* * *What does the ideal partnership or collaborative agreement look like?* * partner with Ambassador program to help spread word about opportunities? **Programs** * Increase number of programs we participate in * research other programs * current programs: LFX Mentorship, GSoC, GSoD, Outreachy * Add 1 more program * Recruit community members to help manage/run the programs * Recruit 2 community members **LFX Mentoring** * research changing the program to allow for a 2-term program for longer/larger projects * How would this work with the req that mentees can only participate in one mentorship * This helps make the program more valuable for Maintainers -- train a mentee for one term, and have them be more productive in the second **Additional goals** * Organize projects (and SIGs and TAGs) to supply an ongoing list of mentorship opportunities based on the Clotributor site * https://clotributor.dev/ * That way we can reach out based on existing tasks * Plus skim a list of potential mentors * Participate in Maintainers Circle, doing session on “participating in mentorship programs” * Nate + 1-2 project maintainers who did mentorships