Recap of Contributor Working Group’s Mentorship Chat on November 16th, 2023
In Attendance: @javiercasares @nao @josepmoran @kafleg @patricia70 @matteoenna @harishanker @oglekler @sumitsingh @webtechpooja @adityakane @ratneshsonar @jeffpaul @mysweetcate @topher1kenobe @sereedmedia @courane01 @gusa @ninianepress @tobifjellner Facilitator (EMEA): @adityakaneFacilitator (AMER): @harishankerNotes: @ratneshsonar Agenda: https://make.wordpress.org/community/2023/11/14/contributor-working-group-mentorship-chat-agenda-november-16th-0700-utc-apac-emea-and-1600-utc-amer/ Meeting Start: EMEA: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1700118080711109AMER: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C037W5S7X/p1700150402952559 Results of the Mentorship Program Survey and Contributor Story Thanks to @ninianepress @sereedmedia and @nao, our working group shipped a post event survey which was sent to all mentees from the mentorship program. At the time of writing this recap, seven people answered the survey and the results are as follows: Benefits from the program Gaining confidence Learning about Core Understanding release processes Better understanding of WordPress teams and release processes Suggestions Meeting a Core dev while they solve the ticket in the next program (shadowing contributions) Expand to multiple languages Have mentees “try out” different teams by making good first contributions Clear expectations on mentorship timelines and meeting times Confusion in welcome meetings More social interactions and connections between mentees. In terms of achievements, we also celebrated the following wins from our past cohort: One of the mentees – @josepmoran published a post about his journey on Spanish WordPress.org and spoke about it at WordCamp Madrid with his mentor @javiercasares. @prikari went on to become a co-organizer of WordCamp…
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