Mentor

Revision as of 00:43, 12 February 2013

Ground Rules

Mentors should be adept with:

• Google Groups, digest mode, web interface, archives
• Google Calendar
• Various webmail services (gmail, hotmail, yahoo mail)
• Wiki editing

General mentorship principles:

• This is a social call, which happens even if nothing's wrong.
• If there are issues to fix, do that, but mostly, get to know each other and help the new member get to know the group.
• As a mentor, you aren't expected to know everything, but to know where to look or who to ask.
• Encourage the new member to do that: Learn who to ask and how to self-guide.

Procedure

During the first appointment:

• Make sure the new member is getting group emails, or keeping up using the web interface.
• Find out if the member has a project in progress, and help them find resources or collaborators.
• Talk about a project you're working on.
• Find out if any questions on the worksheet stumped them, point towards solutions.
• Find out if they've brought any friends by the space, offer to roleplay the guest-and-waiver-and-sign-in process.
• Ask if they have any questions about why the standing rules are written the way they are
• Run through the last-one-out checklist together, letting the new member do the steps, you just following.

During the second appointment:

• Discuss a potential improvement and encourage the new member to begin implementing it.
• Wiki member page?