[Inpycon] Mentoring Speakers

[akshita gupta]

Hello Anand,
I think it's a great Ideas of letting mentors guide newbie speakers.
It will definitely encourage the first time speakers like I will also be
submitting a proposal for speaking and this will be my first time at a
conference. So, It definitely feels good to have a mentor to support and
correct the mistakes.

I think the first option is quite suited as speakers can individually
contact the mentor based upon their domain .

On Mon 30 Apr, 2018, 11:09 AM Anand Chitipothu, <anandology at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> At the CFP workgroup, we've been discussing how to raise the quality of
> talks while encouraging new speakers. Looking around we found that our
> friends at PyCon AU[1] and PyOhio[2] have been providing mentorship support
> speakers in proposing, preparing, or presenting the talk.
>
> A mentor will be an experienced speaker who is interested to help other
> speakers.
>
> If you see, it is really a nice thing. It encourages the first-time
> speakers to come forward as they have someone to guide them, increases
> diversity (assuming we find diverse mentors) and improves the overall talk
> quality. In addition to all this, it creates stronger bonds between people
> in the community.
>
> The plan is that the CFP team will come up with an initial list of mentors
> and asks the group for more suggestions.
>
> We are still debating about how will the potential speakers pick mentors.
> We have been discussing about three possible options. We will have pick one
> or more of those options.
>
> 1. Publish a list of mentors and let potential speakers contacts them
> directly
> 2. Have a google form and we moderate it
> 3. Have a public IRC/Slack channel to comminucate
>
> Do you think it is a good idea? Any comments or suggestions?
>
> [1]: http://2018.pycon-au.org/speak/#mentors
> [2]: https://www.pyohio.org/2018/program/call-for-proposals
>
> Anand
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