[UbuntuWomen] Mentoring program

[Elizabeth Krumbach]

On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 09:28:48AM +0600, Vid Ayer wrote:
> 0] Can we ask newcomers to contact the listed Mentors directly (if
> yes, do we need to take the individuals permission to list their email
> ID on the webpage)

This sounds good.

> 1] Should we ask people to write to us before we list them as mentors.
> Coming from DW, I can personally say that the method they follow [1]
> works very well (at least it did for me :-)).

They should contact us before we list them as mentors.

And the old wiki page for mentoring[0] does a decent job of describing what we
want from mentors.

Oh and we should contact all the people on the current mentoring page to see if
they're still interested.

Speaking of the old wiki page - our new wiki is lacking in content. Is there an
easy way to move all the content from the old wiki to the new wiki? I really
don't know much about using these wikis and would love to help out if someone
would show me what I could do.

> 2] Can we ask Mentors to conduct courses? - I dont know how many will
> do that but if mentors volunteer, there are enough women (and men)
> interested in learning.

I'm not sure having courses really falls within the scope of the Ubuntu-Women
project. But courses are nice and we could try to encourage everyone (not just
mentors) to get out in the Ubuntu community and write documentation/courses.

> 3] What was the medium women prefer: MList or private mail, IRC,
> online tutorials, <anything else>?

Depends on the person. Perhaps when we list the skills of the mentor we can
also list what forms of communication they are comfortable with?

> 4] Would women be willing to contact a Mentor directly and ask for
> specific technical help or would you prefer someone else to initiate
> contact.

Contact directly.

> 5] Are you concerned about privacy.  Example: While applying for a new
> "foo" position, the employer/headhunter may google and find that
> newbie question you asked such a long time ago.

I'm not concerned about privacy in that way, everyone is a newbie at some time.
But I know some people have that concern and we should not require people to
use their real names anywhere within Ubuntu-Women.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomen/Mentors

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Elizabeth A. Krumbach // Lyz at PrincessLeia.com
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