SymfonyCon Warsaw: Community building with mentoring

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One of the more daunting things we encounter in open source development is getting enough people to regularly contribute. To be sustainable, we need to encourage new contributors to participate. To that end, we seek to engage new contributors and experienced developers alike to participate in mentoring. Mentoring provides participants with direction and encouragement to help them find their way. This session is for anyone who would like to learn more about the Drupal mentoring program, mentoring in open source in general, how to mentor new contributors, or how to organize their own sprints. We will cover tools available to mentors, documentation, and practical techniques for mentoring newcomers. We will include strategies for how to: * Make sure people feel welcome * Match tasks to participants * Keep people engaged even when they struggle * Help without being overbearing * Answer questions even if you do not know the answer * Enable folks to continue afterward on their own.

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Community Building withMentoring:

What makes people crazy happy towork on an open source project?

@YesCTCathy Theys

Cheppers, Gittip

Scale

Who is a possible newparticipant?

How can the community helppeople become participants?

every new personinclusiveexperienced contributors dopromoting

OutreachRepeat information

Repeat opportunities

announce opportunities toparticipate

How do we get aparticipant to return?

welcomematch tasksensure success

What do mentors do?

Answer questions theydon’t know the answer to

In public

Where do mentors comefrom?

Engage new contributors andexperienced contributors

Support mentors

Empower mentors

Sprints

Mentors at Sprints

Where do mentors comefrom?

Sprint Preparation

Live recognition of newParticipants

Mentor recognition

Long-term recognition

Benefits

It's the people, people

Resourcesyesct.net/warsawdrupal.org/core-mentoringdrupalmentoring.org/mentor-instructionsdrupal.org/new-contributors

ActionSneak in announcing an oppurtunity to contributeExpose your reasoningHacking Day December 14 10:00

Give feedback pleasejoind.in/10370

@YesCTQuestions?

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