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Improving Mentors program

Improving Mentors program

Recent changes, draft of changes and some ideas to improve Mentors program for Fedora Ambassadors

Anh Tuan TRUONG

August 07, 2014
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  1. Improving the Program
    Truong Anh Tuan
    Presented by
    Mentor, FAmSCo member, FAmA
    License statement goes here. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Content_Licenses for acceptable licenses.
    Ambassador Mentors

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  2. Today's Topics
    1. What is Mentors program?
    2. Mentor process recent changes
    3. Nomination new mentors (draft)
    4. Mentor guidelines (draft)

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  3. What is Mentors
    program?

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  4. The Fedora Mentors program allows new
    Fedora contributors to work together with
    seasoned developers, authors, translators,
    testers, and other experienced contributors
    Mentors program

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  5. Ambassdor mentors
    Mentors are experienced ambassadors who
    can help you quickly become acclimated to the
    work expected of Ambassadors as well as
    ensuring that Ambassadors within Fedora do
    an acceptable job of representing Fedora
    Ref:
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors_Joi
    n_choose_a_mentor

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  6. Mentor process
    recent changes

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  7. Share worload
    Avoid a single point of failure
    Reward with more recognition and
    responsibility
    Consistent with all the other groups where
    sponsors == mentors
    Some reasons

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  8. Changes
    Mentors open the tickets, process mentoring
    and also close them
    Mentors sponsor their own candidates
    Ref:
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassador_Can
    didate_Ticket_Management

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  9. Nomination new
    mentors (draft)

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  10. Nomination process
    A mentor file a ticket in FamA trac to nominate
    a new candidate
    Send a mail to the fama-mentors mailing list
    and asks the mentors to vote (+1/-1/0)
    The candidate must get 3 positive votes with
    no negative votes, over a week review period
    The mentor who nominated the candidate
    opens a ticket im FAmSCo's trac
    FAmSCo will confirm the new mentor

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  11. Mentor guidelines
    (draft)

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  12. Mentoring strategies are different between
    mentors and regions but we have the same
    goal to take our candidates become *good*
    ambassadors
    So, we could have some common guidelines
    (NOT strict rules)
    Reasons

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  13. Thanks Zoltan Hoppar for mainly contributions
    Interactive version:
    https://www.piratepad.ca/p/MentorGuidelines
    Draft ref:
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tuanta/Me
    ntor_Guidelines_Draft
    Draft version

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  14. Provide and explain all necessary information
    to candidates
    Check if candidates read through all supplied
    information and understand them all
    Maintain a check list (no template) to ensure
    that candidates passed all required steps
    Support them to do their new job whenever
    they want/ask for
    Mentors

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  15. Provide and explain all necessary information
    to candidates
    Limit the acceptable candidates by mentoring
    time, mentor can fix the amount of mentees
    that he can carry
    IRC office hour $time periodically as necessary
    on #fedora-mentors
    Make IRC lessons with logged sessions - this
    gonna proof lot of things
    Mentors

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  16. Provide links from earlier activities within
    Fedora to your mentor
    Create personal wiki page
    Read through all supplied information
    Ask mentor any *dummy* questions
    Attend at least one regional IRC meeting
    Organize at least an event/activity or
    attend/help a few ones organized by others
    Candidates

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  17. As introduction: Experiences, and known infra
    and connections, communications
    Lesson one: Fedora 4F, FOSS basics, our
    targets, community build-up, communications
    (ML, Meetings, IRC), personal page check
    Lesson two: Fedora Project Leadership and
    infrastructure, Marketing (Presskit, Artwork),
    Legal stuff (Fedora logo guidelines)
    Lesson ideas

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  18. Lesson three: Contribution, Ticket work,
    inventory, swag
    Lesson four: Events, events handling,
    Cooperation with RH members and teams
    (Hiring desk, Tech desk)
    Lesson five: Closing session online - named
    survey session, quick questionary as final
    exam?
    Lesson ideas

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  19. Single static webpage (with FAS-OpenID login),
    single hub for mentors and approved mentees
    that publically provides structural and progress
    informations: active mentors, available slots,
    timing, monthly office hour by FAMA leader,
    running session, and status
    Provide an flyer for ambassadors, where we
    clearly define our quality line - what is that we
    awaiting from ambassadors, if someone wants
    to be
    Infra ideas

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  20. Discussion
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    Contact:

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