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title: Mentoring Repo - Refactor 2022
tags: TAG-CS Mentoring WG
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# CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy Mentoring WG Charter

## Introduction

The CNCF participates in and runs several mentorship programs throughout the year. These mentoring initiatives should be administered by, and be accountable to, the wider CNCF community.

## Mission

Encourage cloud native computing adoption by providing opportunities for a diverse group of new contributors to work on CNCF projects with experienced mentorship.

## Goals

* Increase CNCF projects participation in mentoring programs external to the Linux Foundation
* Increase number of CNCF projecs and mentee participation in the LFX Mentorship program
* Increase quality of mentorship that CNCF projects provide across all mentorship initiatives
* Explore opportunities for CNCF participation in new mentorship programs
* Diversity in participants, both mentees and mentors

## Scope

The following mentorship initiatives should be moved under the purview of the TAG Contributor Strategy Mentoring Working Group:
* The CNCF portion of LFX Mentorship (formerly Community bridge)
* Google Summer of Code
* Google Season of Docs
* Outreachy
* CROSS

### Responsibilities

The TAG CS Mentoring Working group becomes responsible for:
* Administration, strategy, mentor and project recruiting, decision making, management, communication, (marketing development, onboarding support)
> [name=Nate W.] do we need to specify repsonsibilities/roles/activities here?
> [name=JayTiaki]I'm keen; I'll have additional team members supporting this project we can assign various actions to even the workload
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The CNCF/LF remains responsible for:
* Funding (where they were previously responsible)
* Support staff

### Contact

* Github discussions for external communications with participants (mentors and mentees)
* https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/discussions
* CNCF email list for administration
* suggested list: [e-mail]
* CNCF Slack
* #tag-cs-mentoring-wg for real time discussion around administration
* #mentoring
> [name=Nate W.] Potentially, we should close/archive the slack #mentoring channel

#### Documenation

Official documentation to be organized in the https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/ repository.

Draft documents can be written up using the HackMD team space: https://hackmd.io/team/tag-cs-mentoring-wg

### Meetings

Meetings to occur Monthly, with extra meetings to manage special events and high effort parts of the mentoring sceudle as needed. Calendar published on the CNCF public events calendar and invites sent out upon joining the email list.

## Interested parties

Hippie Hacker (ii)
Ihor Dvoretsky (CNCF)
Hippie Hacker (ii)
Josh Berkus (Red Hat)
Aishwarya Palekar (tentative)
Ella Dunlop (ii)
Bill Mulligan (Isovalent)
Kunal Kushwaha (Civo)
Kiran Mova (VMware)
Alexandre Nicastro (Nikas)
Natali Vlatko (Wayfair)

(others... please feel free to add yourself)

## Chairs

Nate Waddington (Linux Foundation/CNCF)
Jay Tihema (ii)