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Mentoring - Sponsored by Women of OpenStack

Mentoring is an important tool for growing our OpenStack Community. Mentoring helps new Community members come on board, and it helps existing Community members expand their skills and reputation. Mentees help their mentors expand their worldview and challenge their mindset. This process of gaining knowledge and challenging existing ideas is vital to our OpenStack Community.

The OpenStack Foundation sponsors two levels of mentoring:

Outreachy mentoring - an intense internship-type experience over a particular three month period for groups who are underrepresented in Open Source software
Upstream Training - a two-day class for beginners in the Community, held on-site the two days prior to the Summit

The Women of OpenStack sponsors additional mentoring initiatives: Lightweight Mentoring and Speed Mentoring.

The Mentoring program is a several-months-long, but lightweight, program aimed at bringing together mentors and mentees who may not be co-located. We suggest that mentees already be part of the OpenStack Community and have gone through, or be familiar with, the Upstream University training materials. This program supports two categories of mentoring:

Technical: Mentors with experience in a particular area of OpenStack help their mentees grow in that area. This could be a focus area like release management or marketing, or a particular project like Nova or Neutron.
Career: Mentors help their mentees define what kind of career they'd like in the community and move toward those goals. Mentors and mentees may or may not have the same focus area in the OpenStack Community.

Current Mentoring Program Members: If you've been matched with a mentor or mentee, please check our our Getting Started Guide for tips on your first meeting. Also check out our guides for mentors and mentees. If you are part of the Mentoring program and would like to opt out, please email Emily.

Speed Mentoring is a session held at OpenStack Summits and open to everyone, not just women. This mentoring session is like speed dating: a mentor meets with a group of mentees for a limited amount of time and then moves to another group, cycling through as many mentee groups as possible during the session.

Are you interested in a being a mentor? We are always looking for mentors of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds. Mentors should have between 1 and 4 hours a month free to spend with their mentee. Read our guidelines and if you're ready to sign up, please fill out our questionnaire!

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 == Mentoring - Sponsored by Women of OpenStack ==
-Mentoring is an important tool for growing our OpenStack community.  Mentors help new community members come on board and existing community members expand their skills and reputation.  Mentees help their mentors expand their worldview and challenge their mindset.  This process of gaining knowledge and challenging existing ideas is vital to our community.
+Mentoring is an important tool for growing our OpenStack Community. Mentoring helps new Community members come on board, and it helps existing Community members expand their skills and reputation. Mentees help their mentors expand their worldview and challenge their mindset. This process of gaining knowledge and challenging existing ideas is vital to our OpenStack Community.
-The OpenStack community currently has a few levels of mentoring:
+The OpenStack Foundation sponsors two levels of mentoring:
-* [[Outreachy|Outreachy mentoring]] - an intense internship-type experience over a particular three month period
+* [[Outreachy|Outreachy mentoring]] - an intense internship-type experience over a particular three month period for groups who are underrepresented in Open Source software
-* Upstream training - a two-day class for beginners in the community, held on-site the two days prior to the summit
+* [http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/ Upstream Training] - a two-day class for beginners in the Community, held on-site the two days prior to the Summit
+<br />
+The Women of OpenStack sponsors additional mentoring initiatives:  Lightweight Mentoring and Speed Mentoring.
+<br />
+<br />
+The '''Mentoring''' program is a several-months-long, but lightweight, program aimed at bringing together mentors and mentees who may not be co-located.   We suggest that mentees already be part of the OpenStack Community and have gone through, or be familiar with, the [https://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training Upstream University training materials].   This program supports two categories of mentoring:
+# '''Technical:''' Mentors with experience in a particular area of OpenStack help their mentees grow in that area. This could be a focus area like release management or marketing, or a particular project like Nova or Neutron.
+# '''Career:''' Mentors help their mentees define what kind of career they'd like in the community and move toward those goals. Mentors and mentees may or may not have the same focus area in the OpenStack Community.
+<br />
+'''Current Mentoring Program Members: If you've been matched with a mentor or mentee, please check our our [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rXLWga17J3TXENNTvJgNJ4ol9N3_FgH20y_gFrITR_Y/edit?usp=sharing Getting Started Guide] for tips on your first meeting. Also check out our guides for [https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ZJz0oX_V944o84xe-l67zvy2kf1RyCzpudU2fTlDOA/edit?usp=sharing mentors] and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zPPX9NMP669erdCi-PLCW5Mac1l0gm_TH-LAwDRQfpQ/edit?usp=sharing mentees].'''
+If you are part of the Mentoring program and would like to opt out, please [http://mailto:emily.celeskey@gmail.com?subject=Mentoring%20program%20opt%20out email Emily].
-The Women of OpenStack group is sponsoring two other types of mentoring, specifically long term but lightweight mentoring aimed at bringing together mentors and mentees who may not be co-located.
+'''Speed Mentoring''' is a session held at OpenStack Summits and open to everyone, not just women. This mentoring session is like speed dating: a mentor meets with a group of mentees for a limited amount of time and then moves to another group, cycling through as many mentee groups as possible during the session.
-# Technical mentoring - mentorship is spread over several months.  Mentors with experience in a particular area of OpenStack help their mentees grow in that area.  This could be a focus area like release management or marketing, or a particular project like Nova or Neutron.
-# Career mentoring - mentorship is spread out over several months or years.  Mentors help their mentees define what kind of career they'd like in the community and move toward those goals.   Mentors and mentees may or may not have the same focus area in the community.
-We're kicking off these new mentoring programs before the Austin summit, to tie in with the upstream training and a new Speed Mentoring session there.
-We are currently looking for mentors of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds.  Mentors should have between 1 and 4 hours a month free to spend with their mentee.  Read our [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxtM4AiszlEyVkEtdktmWjBPN3c/view guidelines] and if you're ready to sign up, please fill out our [https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/mentoring questionnaire]!
-If you've been matched with a mentor or mentee, please check our our [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rXLWga17J3TXENNTvJgNJ4ol9N3_FgH20y_gFrITR_Y/edit?usp=sharing Getting Started Guide] for tips on your first meeting.
+'''Are you interested in a being a mentor?'''  We are always looking for mentors of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds. Mentors should have between 1 and 4 hours a month free to spend with their mentee. Read our [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxtM4AiszlEyVkEtdktmWjBPN3c/view guidelines] and if you're ready to sign up, please fill out our [https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/mentoring questionnaire]!
-Also check out our guides for [https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ZJz0oX_V944o84xe-l67zvy2kf1RyCzpudU2fTlDOA/edit?usp=sharing mentors] and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zPPX9NMP669erdCi-PLCW5Mac1l0gm_TH-LAwDRQfpQ/edit?usp=sharing mentees].
-Thanks to everyone who attended our Speed Mentoring session at the Austin summit.  If you have any feedback about how we could make the next Speed Mentoring session better, please put it [https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/WOS_speedmentor_austin here].