Hey, So a quick question. I volunteered to mentor, but it doesn't seem I've been listed as a potential mentor on any projects. Should I be doing something to seek out students or is there just enough mentors at the moment?
Thanks, *-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Quim Gil <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Specifically about the 2 mentors per project requirement: > > > On 04/27/2013 04:58 PM, Quim Gil wrote: > >> * Get a second co-mentor for the proposals you want to see accepted. >> It's not easy but the success rate is remarkably higher, and the >> workload for each remarkably lower. Could be a profile complementary to >> yours: technical vs community, professional vs volunteer, maintainer vs >> power user, East vs West... The candidate and the project will benefit a >> lot. >> > > Brian comments that, for instance, for > > Proofread Page extension needs to be refactored > www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**Mentorship_programs/Possible_** > projects#Proofread_Page_**extension_needs_to_be_**refactored<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Proofread_Page_extension_needs_to_be_refactored> > > Tpt is the only maintainer and looking at past contributions there is no > other significant active contributor. > > Sure, this is a problem and in fact a factor to push a GSoC / OPW project > in order to increase the community health of an "endangered species". ;) > However, the other co-mentor could be e.g. a qualified stakeholder e.g. in > this case a Wikisource admin or someone recognized in that community, > responsive, able to help with prioritization of requirements, with > testing... > > GSoC recommends two mentors per project and we have reached to the same > conclusion based on our experiences. > > See also the lessons learned at https://www.mediawiki.org/** > wiki/Outreach_Program_for_**Women/Round_5<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_5> > > The case for the second co-mentor is not only "what happens when a mentor > disappears", which is a extreme case. A second co-mentor is a second voice, > a second factor of peer pressure, a second eye to detect problems earlier... > > A team of 3 remote people also leads necessarily to better remote > communications, better documentation and better openness and capacity to > include more voices and more people in a project. > > Also, mentors learn as much as interns. Two new co-mentors will have an > easier time than a new mentor alone. A rookie co-mentor can learn from one > mentor with prior mentoring experience, and then a year later s/he will be > ready to be the main co-mentor... > > Two people alone can do a lot of progress, but they carry a higher risk of > isolation from the rest of the community. And then one day the intern or > the mentor starts slacking or vanishing for some reason and all what is > left are private emails, IRC/IM conversations and other types of > undocumented, lost wisdom. > > > -- > Quim Gil > Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/**User:Qgil<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
