Recap of Contributor Working Group Inaugural Mentorship Chat on March 20, 2023
In attendance: @adityakane @nao @oglekler @yoga1103 @leonnugraha @mikeschroder @st810amaze @onealtr @carl-alberto @tobifjellner @kcristiano @javiercasares @webtechpooja @sz786 @meher @webcommsat @courane01 @jeffpaul @sereedmedia @cbringmann @angelasjin @juliarosia @askdesign @wolfpaw @nomadskateboarding @dpknauss @harishanker Notes: @nomadskateboarding @harishanker Agenda: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2023/03/20/contributor-working-group-mentorship-kick-off-chat-agenda-march-20th-1200-utc-emea-and-2100-utc-amer/ Meeting Start EMEA: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1679313673369819 AMER: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1679346070134409 Clarifying Group Responsibilities At the chat, it was clarified that the exclusive focus of the group will be on building a projectwide mentorship program for WordPress. This is because lack of mentorship was identified as one of the biggest gaps in contribution experience for our program based on feedback from multiple blog posts. Besides, “Establish contributor and mentor programs” is one of the big picture goals of the WordPress Project in 2023 as well. @tobifjellner shared some excellent ideas that the group might want to look at, which includes finding easier ways to contribute, find a new default channel in Slack for newcomers, suggeestions to improve onboarding, and onboarding contributors regionally and locally. The idea of creating a default channel for contributors was supported by several participants. While these ideas have merit and should be pursued, the group decided that it was best to focus on Mentorship for now, which is a big project to tackle. The group proposes to…
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