[python-committers] Mentoring Office Hours - the idea, and a question

[Brian Curtin]

Yep, this is something I'm adding directly in the devguide so it's right
where new contributors are already going to be looking for help and
information.

As for how those mentors and mentees actually do the work, to start with I
think it's something that each person should just do what they're
comfortable with and have access to, and then once we have some data to
work off of, maybe then we prescribe some specific ways of doing it. I'm ok
to do video things, but some might not be, so in getting this started I
wanted to just begin with names, days, times, and contact information on an
official website. If someone wants mentorship and they're available when
I'm available, they reach out to me and we find a way to talk.

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:31 AM Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm usually available between 10:00 and 16:00 in the French timezone
> (currently, it's CEST = UTC+2).
>
> A few months ago, I wrote a tutorial and a list of available core
> developers... currently it's just me :-D
>
>    http://cpython-core-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_help.html
>
> Maybe this list should be moved in the developer guide?
>
>    https://devguide.python.org/help/
>
> I chose to put it in my tutorial, since it's less official, and I was
> not sure if I should put myself in the official guide ;-)
>
> --
>
> I also heard the idea of pair-programming using a chat, a video
> conference, or something else.
>
> For example, when you work on a bug, do it with a contributor to show
> how you work. I never did that before, but I may try ;-)
>
> Victor
>
> 2018-05-16 9:52 GMT-04:00 Brian Curtin <brian at python.org>:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > At the Language Summit last week, after Mariatta's talk we had a
> > conversation around diversity and how to grow our contributor base, which
> > led to someone (Steve Dower?) suggesting we post a sort of "Office Hours"
> > list. This would be a list of current core developers who are interested
> in
> > being available at set time(s) for helping mentor newer contributors in
> our
> > community through our process and, if they're interested, mentoring them
> > through the process of becoming core developers themselves.
> >
> > This "Office Hours" concept is a type of thing that has worked well
> > elsewhere, including around the software world, and we have some people
> > interested in offering said mentorship, so I would like to move on to
> > getting this list up somewhere so we can start doing it.
> >
> > With that said, before I go make a PR to the devguide to start iterating
> on
> > the implementation, an important question:
> >
> > As this is both an event similar to an in-person meetup and an event
> meant
> > to be a safe space for those getting started, it will explicitly mention
> the
> > code of conduct. As such, it needs a person/persons/list to contact
> should
> > something arise in this context that needs to be handled. What/who should
> > that be?
> >  * Suggestion 1: use the already in-place
> core-mentorship-owner at python.org,
> > though I can't tell who's on there.
> >  * Suggestion 2: Create some new list with a few key people on it.
> >  * Suggestion 3: List some direct names. Who?
> >
> > As for implementation, there are some tools out there we could possibly
> use,
> > but in the interests of getting something out there I'm just going to
> make a
> > table and fill in some common information, starting with my own. Calendar
> > apps and other integrations can come as we figure them out.
> >
> > Brian
> >
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