Re: LF Community Bridge Mentorship

[akuster <akuster@mvista.com>]

On 8/16/19 12:37 AM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> hi there.
> just a reminder!
> cheers

Maybe mention this during the BoF in next week's ELC?

- armin
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:46 PM Nicolas Dechesne
> <nicolas.dechesne@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> The Community Bridge platform was launched earlier this year by the
>> Linux Foundation. It’s a set of services available to LF projects to
>> help them build stronger ecosystems, and foster developers
>> relationship within their respective communities. See [1] and [2]. The
>> Yocto Project has joined the Community Bridge Funding and Mentorship
>> programs.
>>
>> If you have any specific questions about these programs, please do not
>> hesitate to reach out to me.
>>
>> Today, we would like to talk more about the mentorship program. We
>> have tried several initiatives in the past about interns and
>> mentorship, and we would like to do that again using the new LF
>> platform. A mentorship program for the Yocto Project is a good
>> opportunity for our overall community to reach out to new developers,
>> improve our developers diversity. It will help increase the pool of
>> available developers with appropriate skills about the Yocto Project
>> and Open Embedded technologies and as a consequence create a more
>> sustainable ecosystem around the Yocto Project. It also offers
>> existing senior developers the chance to become mentors, and share
>> their knowledge!
>>
>> We would like to request feedback about how to best define the Yocto
>> Project Mentorship program.
>>
>> The structure of the mentorship is flexible and we can adjust as
>> needed. Our initial thought is to set 12-week project, which is what
>> the Linux Kernel Mentorship program is using, see [4]. The overall
>> process involves:
>>
>> 1. Finding / defining work items for potential mentees.
>> 2. Get appropriate funding for mentees’ stipends
>> 3. Recruit mentors within our community
>> 4. Review and select mentees’ applications
>>
>> There has already been some work on the potential work items in the
>> form of the newcomer bugs, some of which could be turned into work
>> suitable for a mentorship programme.
>>
>> === Call for ACTION ===
>>
>> * We need your help for any of the items above, and especially #1 to
>> get started. Whether you are a long time contributor to the project or
>> you recently joined our mailing list, your feedback will be greatly
>> appreciated.
>> * If you are interested to participate as a mentor, please let me know!
>> * You don’t need to be a project expert to be a mentor, you need to
>> know how the project works and be willing to help guide someone
>> through their task.
>>
>> There is no specific timeline set yet, it will most likely depend on
>> how much feedback we receive about this initiative, but most likely
>> the internships will have to be tied to the Yocto Project release
>> timeline.
>>
>> If you have any questions or any suggestions, please reach out to me!
>> cheers,
>> Nico
>>
>> [1] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/2019/03/the-linux-foundation-launches-new-communitybridge-platform-to-help-sustain-open-source-communities/
>> [2] https://communitybridge.org/
>> [3] https://people.communitybridge.org/
>> [4] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/lkmp