Lightning Talk: MeshMates : A New Way of Expanding Open Source Community Mentorship
Lightningat Community Leadership Conference @ Open Source Summit North America 2022 · 2022-06-21..06-24·
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MeshMates is a program that pairs newcomers with experienced contributors for one-to-one mentorship, runs weekly newcomers meetings and a community handbook, and teaches Git/GitHub plus where to start in the CNCF landscape. It aims to get mentees to make their first pull request and progress up the contribution ladder. Layer5 reports the approach scales to >700+ contributors across projects and earned a #1 rating in the LFX student mentorship program.
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