[OE-core] LF Community Bridge Mentorship

[Nicolas Dechesne]

hi there.
just a reminder!
cheers

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:46 PM Nicolas Dechesne
<nicolas.dechesne at 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