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[Sense Hofstede <sense@xxxxxxxx>]

2010/1/1 Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 08:23:03AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
>> I've seen a lot of mentor requests on this list lately, but no responses
>> to them. I also see that there are quite a few mentors at
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/Mentors that do not currently have any
>> mentees.
>>
>> So, how is the match-making between mentors and mentees supposed to
>> work? It seems to me, like that part is not functioning correctly and
>> that we might lose a lot of good people as a result. :-(
>
> Cirtainly it is my understanding that the page you mention has the
> outline of the proceedure and steps required to achieve applying for
> mentorship and for advertising mentorship.  That said there are still a
> number of requests coming to this list implying at least to me that
> there is a page somewhere which mentions that as the correct proceedure
> and needs updating.
>
> I will also note that the page still says its a work in progress, I am
> wondering who is working on the proceedure there?
>
> Can anyone enlighten us?  Also if anyone knows where the reference to
> applying to this list is in the Wiki could they report it here, so we
> can update the referneces to point to the new procedure.
>
> Cheers.
>
> -apw
>
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Hello,

I agree that there are too many mentees without mentor and too many
mentors without mentee at the moment. Maybe we should make it more
clear how to pick a mentee and make someone responsible for keeping
the wiki page[1] up-to-date and clean. E.g. I'm not sure if the list
of mentee-candidates at the bottom of the wiki page[1] is still
relevant, or if we will use just the LP team[2] for keeping track of
the mentors and mentees.

What we need is: a clear set of guidelines -- also for picking a
mentee --  and someone who is ultimately responsible for the mentor
program, so we know who to talk to and there is someone who can do the
things that otherwise would be forgotten. Currently, I feel, some
things -- like responding to mentee-candidates -- aren't always done
because no one seems to have the responsibility for it, and therefore
everyone assumes someone else will do it or has done it.

I suggest to make two or more people responsible for 'triaging' mentor
requests, i.e. responding to people, redirecting them to the right
places if necessary and process correct applications. Once a month (or
more frequently?) they could send a list with mentee-candidates
waiting for a mentor, to assure the mentors don't forget people. As a
bonus the request date could be added so we know who is waiting the
longest.

I find that either 'Work in progress' should be removed from the wiki
page, or the project should be paused until the work has been done. We
shouldn't use an impartial project for welcoming people new to the
community.

If I could be of any use to the mentoring project I would be happy to help out.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/Mentors
[2] https://launchpad.net/~bugsquad-mentorship

Kind regards,
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Sense Hofstede
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