Panel Discussion: Creating your Community Mentorship Program
summary
Comparative account of running mentorship programs: Google Summer of Code runs 1,200+ participants with ~195–200 organizations and a ~$500 org stipend per student, FOSSASIA’s Codeheat (since 2016) teaches PR workflow and commit messages, Outreachy runs paid remote internships twice a year and reports over a thousand alumni but now faces a funding crunch (recent rounds funded ~35 interns), Mozilla Open Leaders records a sevenfold GitHub activity lift for mentored projects and prioritizes retention and alumni-as-mentors; common practices include a published mentor guide, vetting, staged feedback and multi-mentor backups to reduce burnout.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Panel on mentorship programs
- 4:11Goals and target audiences
- 9:00Measuring mentorship impact
- 14:41Scaling mentorship programs
- 17:50Avoiding mentor burnout
- 25:38Funding mentorship programs
- 30:34Mentor training and quality
- 37:38Diversity in mentorship
- 43:36Non-coding mentorship skills
- 46:30Q&A
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