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title: 2023 Mentorship Goals
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title: 2023 Mentorship Goals
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**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* Reduce percentage of failed/withdrawn mentees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
