Mentoring Working Group

Want to help new contributors get started? We participate in and run several mentorship programs!

Mentoring Working Group is a group of people who focus on mentorship initiatives to encourage the adoption of cloud native computing. Our mission is to provide opportunities for new contributors to work on CNCF projects with experienced mentorship, which helps to promote growth and sustainability of projects. We also provide support and advice to CNCF projects around mentorship initiatives.

Goals

Increase CNCF project participation in mentoring programs external to the Linux Foundation
Increase the number of CNCF projects and mentee participation in the LFX Mentorship program
Increase the quality of mentorship that CNCF projects provide across all mentorship initiatives
Explore opportunities for CNCF participation in new mentorship initiatives.
Diversity in participants, both mentees and mentors
Increase both code and non-code projects
Develop mentorship by providing a path for mentees to become mentors and providing education for mentors

Mentoring Programs

Mentoring WG manages the following mentorship initiatives:

LFX Mentorship (ex-CommunityBridge): mentoring initiative by the Linux Foundation - details
Google Summer of Code: mentoring program for the open source beginners - details
Google Season of Docs: mentoring initiative for the technical writers - details
Outreachy: mentoring initiative for the communities traditionally underrepresented in tech - details

How your community can benefit

Here are some benefits that the Mentoring working group can provide to communities:

Do the necessary paper work and applications to mentoring programs on behalf of CNCF projects
Provide mentors the best practices and resources for managing and interacting with mentees
Guidance and support for an efficient mentorship execution
Promote your project’s mentoring activities and help you find more mentees and thus more contributors

You may find links to resources in our repository.

How you can contribute

We are happy to see that you are interested in helping with this working group. We would love to:

see you as mentors in the mentoring programs we participate in and organize.
get feedback about out guides and documentation.
see your introduction email on our mailing list / message on our Slack channel.
see you attend our meetings where you can contribute ideas and take responsibilities.