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Enabling Next Gen of Diverse Maintainers and Employees Through Mentorship

Talkat FOSDEM 2022 · on Sunday, 2022-02-06· at 17:00· M.community· [diversity-and-inclusion]

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name:Bartek Plotka
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name:Prem Saraswat
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resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2022/M.community/community_mentorship.mp4
slides:https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/community_mentorship/attachments/slides/5245/export/events/attachments/community_mentorship/slides/5245/Slides

summary

Covers how structured mentoring programs were used in Prometheus and Thanos (CNCF) to onboard and develop 20+ diverse contributors into maintainers and employees. Explains practical processes that worked, common mentoring pitfalls to avoid, and concrete advice for getting mentored or starting mentoring in a company or open-source project, contrasting structured mentoring with programs like LFX, GSoC, and Outreachy.

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