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title: Mentoring WG KubeCon 2022 NA draft
tags: [Kubecon, ' 2022']

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title: Mentoring WG KubeCon 2022 NA draft
date: 2022-09-27
tags: Kubecon, 2022
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# Mentoring WG KubeCon 2022 NA draft

## Audience

* Project owners/maintainers
* Mentors & prospective mentors
* *some* mentees, but not very many

Opportunity to highlight this is as a service to the projects

## Outline 

* **Mentoring WG**
  * What is it? Provide brief explanation, ask for help/support
  * Part of TAG-CS: maintainers helping maintainers
  * How mentoring helps projects
      * new contributors
      * better docs
      * diversity
      * learning management skills

* **Programs**
Focus: entry-level programs for new mentees; continuing mentees will come in due time. 

  * CNCF LFX Mentoring
  * GSoC/GSoD
  * Outreachy?

* **NZ program**
  * Regional recruitment lens

* **Call to action**

  * General place where people offer projects for mentors to participate in - set-up before KubeCon > LFX 2023
  
    * invite folks to open a PR with their projects 
    * help admin programs

  * Current efforts
      * documentation/website
      * advisory documentation e.g. How To Mentor
      * reviewer mentoring?
      * opportunities board
 
* **End - Questions** (15+ minutes)

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**Notes:**
* Possibility of rolling intake/program
    * Hard to maintain with current staffing issues, need better software to support etc.
* What could people *outside* of NZ do to support?
* Typically mentors are getting stuck at the beginning of the process - unsure of what guidance to provide, how to structure mentorship format etc. - as opposed to 'how to be a good boss'-type information currently on offer
* Need to look at recruiting contributors outside of traditional areas e.g. get a job for a tech company and *then* contribute
* Encouraging others to increase diversity will always be important
* Look at providing more support/developing Nigeria to reflect strong interest
* Predominant program participation approx. 90% indian university students
