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Look online and find as many write ups, blogs and summaries as you can about how in-person events or community focused programs try to mentor new developers. This can be mentoring for volunteers, community members or paid staff. Keep a list of all of the links to the programs you have found, read through all of them and produce a list of ideas and tips for people to help them develop their own mentoring programs. We are interested in hearing about as many mentoring programs as possible. We would like to add new ideas to our mentoring guide and help Wikimedia mentors be successful and helpful. This task should focus mostly on mentoring developers but you are welcome to use lessons from any 1:1 mentoring programs that exist. Ideas to get you starting to think about how to research this and what kinds of questions we are interested in. If you find your own mentoring interest areas or questions along the way feel free to focus on them instead. We are interested in learning more about all areas of mentoring. - What does it take to be an effective mentor? - Can you comment on the importance of a mentor socially connecting their mentee vrs teaching them actual skills? - What do mentees want out of a mentor / mentee relationships? - What resources can event organizers or community mangers provide to mentors to help them be more effective? - What do mentors want out of a mentor / mentee relationship? - Can you be an effective mentor if you don't fully understand the skill you are teaching? - Can you be an effective mentor if you don't enjoy large amounts of social interaction? - How can a mentor make sure that their communication styles work for the mentee? - Can you have an effective mentor / mentee relationships if you only interact online? How important are in person meetings? - How can a mentor from a very different cultural background as their mentee make sure they are being effective and culturally sensitive? You should look around the internet and collect as many relevant links as you can. Then write up summary of common themes and new ideas that you have discovered and learned about in an easy-to-read summary. Consider creating something that is both useful for event organizers and community mangers as well as something that would be useful for mentors. You could also consider creating a resource to prepare mentees. You can create a wiki page as a subpage of your personal page (for example under https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:YourUsername/Developer_Mentoring_Programs , replace `YourUsername` by your own username on that website after [you have created your account](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount)), or put your links and summary on phabricator (see the [Phabricator Help](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help)). All of your writing should be freely published under an open license to be reused. Your writing may ultimately end up on a wiki so others will have the chance to change, add to, and edit it.

Look online and find as many write ups, blogs and summaries as you can about how in-person events or community focused programs try to mentor new developers. This can be mentoring for volunteers, community members or paid staff. Keep a list of all of the links to the programs you have found, read through all of them and produce a list of ideas and tips for people to help them develop their own mentoring programs. We are interested in hearing about as many mentoring programs as possible. We would like to add new ideas to our mentoring guide and help Wikimedia mentors be successful and helpful. This task should focus mostly on mentoring developers but you are welcome to use lessons from any 1:1 mentoring programs that exist. Ideas to get you starting to think about how to research this and what kinds of questions we are interested in. If you find your own mentoring interest areas or questions along the way feel free to focus on them instead. We are interested in learning more about all areas of mentoring. - What does it take to be an effective mentor? - Can you comment on the importance of a mentor socially connecting their mentee vrs teaching them actual skills? - What do mentees want out of a mentor / mentee relationships? - What resources can event organizers or community mangers provide to mentors to help them be more effective? - What do mentors want out of a mentor / mentee relationship? - Can you be an effective mentor if you don't fully understand the skill you are teaching? - Can you be an effective mentor if you don't enjoy large amounts of social interaction? - How can a mentor make sure that their communication styles work for the mentee? - Can you have an effective mentor / mentee relationships if you only interact online? How important are in person meetings? - How can a mentor from a very different cultural background as their mentee make sure they are being effective and culturally sensitive? You should look around the internet and collect as many relevant links as you can. Then write up summary of common themes and new ideas that you have discovered and learned about in an easy-to-read summary. Consider creating something that is both useful for event organizers and community mangers as well as something that would be useful for mentors. You could also consider creating a resource to prepare mentees. You can create an [edit a wiki page](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing) as a subpage of your personal page (for example under https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:YourUsername/Developer_Mentoring_Programs , replace `YourUsername` by your own username on that website after [you have created your account](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount)), or put your links and summary on phabricator (see the [Phabricator Help](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help)). All of your writing should be freely published under an open license to be reused. Your writing may ultimately end up on a wiki so others will have the chance to change, add to, and edit it.

Look online and find as many write ups, blogs and summaries as you can about how in-person events or community focused programs try to mentor new developers. This can be mentoring for volunteers, community members or paid staff. Keep a list of all of the links to the programs you have found, read through all of them and produce a list of ideas and tips for people to help them develop their own mentoring programs. We are interested in hearing about as many mentoring programs as possible. We would like to add new ideas to our mentoring guide and help Wikimedia mentors be successful and helpful. This task should focus mostly on mentoring developers but you are welcome to use lessons from any 1:1 mentoring programs that exist. Ideas to get you starting to think about how to research this and what kinds of questions we are interested in. If you find your own mentoring interest areas or questions along the way feel free to focus on them instead. We are interested in learning more about all areas of mentoring. - What does it take to be an effective mentor? - Can you comment on the importance of a mentor socially connecting their mentee vrs teaching them actual skills? - What do mentees want out of a mentor / mentee relationships? - What resources can event organizers or community mangers provide to mentors to help them be more effective? - What do mentors want out of a mentor / mentee relationship? - Can you be an effective mentor if you don't fully understand the skill you are teaching? - Can you be an effective mentor if you don't enjoy large amounts of social interaction? - How can a mentor make sure that their communication styles work for the mentee? - Can you have an effective mentor / mentee relationships if you only interact online? How important are in person meetings? - How can a mentor from a very different cultural background as their mentee make sure they are being effective and culturally sensitive? You should look around the internet and collect as many relevant links as you can. Then write up summary of common themes and new ideas that you have discovered and learned about in an easy-to-read summary. Consider creating something that is both useful for event organizers and community mangers as well as something that would be useful for mentors. You could also consider creating a resource to prepare mentees. You can create an [edit a wiki pagepage](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing) as a subpage of your personal page (for example under https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:YourUsername/Developer_Mentoring_Programs , replace `YourUsername` by your own username on that website after [you have created your account](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount)), or put your links and summary on phabricator (see the [Phabricator Help](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help)). All of your writing should be freely published under an open license to be reused. Your writing may ultimately end up on a wiki so others will have the chance to change, add to, and edit it.