[UbuntuWomen] Hello All! and Re: Introductions - Aruna Vallur

[Svetlana Belkin]

Since you said that using the mailing-list and the IRC channels as a
casual way is better than formal mentioning, you think it would be a
better idea to change the mentioning program into this program?

-Svetlana

On 07/23/2013 07:29 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Svetlana Belkin <barsookmud at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Or this is the mentoring program that we have
>> is for?
> 
> I'd love to chat about this at our next meeting, but a quick comment
> about mentoring...
> 
> Our formal program where a mentor and mentee are paired up as
> described on our official mentoring page[0] hasn't been successful.
> We've paired up very few people over the years and even most of those
> it usually ends up that either the Mentor or the Mentee gets too busy
> to continue.
> 
> Instead we've begun to encourage folks to communicate on list and in
> our IRC channels in a more casual way, I've mentored several women
> "informally" this way and it's been beneficial to all of us. The
> mentee has the support of the whole community and doesn't feel left
> out when I end up getting too busy, and I don't feel guilty about
> being a blocker on their progress. If I'm not around, they just ask
> someone else in #ubuntu-women or the community they join (docs,
> packaging, etc - from my experience it's much less scary to speak up
> and ask questions after a couple weeks of working with a community).
> 
> [0] http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Mentoring
>