Building Mentorship Opportunities at Your Open-source Organizations
summary
Community builds a mentorship working group that runs LFX mentorship, Google Summer of Code and Season of Docs placements, and Outreachy placements, mentoring a dozen people directly and driving 400% growth year‑over‑year; project examples include Flint (C++ MRV framework) and a 175 hours project with defined skills and mentor contact; one community funds its own program with 15,000 USD Open Collective to pay ten contributors; use mentorship.guide templates, set checkpoints, define success metrics, and require contribution guides and clear mentor listings.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 5:56Why open-source participation matters?
- 11:32What lack of open-source collaboration lead to?
- 12:36How to build an active and vibrant community?
- 15:25How has mentorship opportunities helped us?
- 17:54What are some of the mentorship opportunities?
- 19:49What are working groups?
- 21:40How can a mentorship working group help?
- 23:00How to build a mentorship working group?
- 24:43Defining success metrics for mentoring initiatives
- 26:14Getting started with mentorship in the community
- 28:17Helping people find mentors through initiatives
- 30:23How can mentee ease the process?
- 31:44Build relevant contribution/project ideas
- 32:32Define the mentorship funnel
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