Mentorship programs. Growing new team and community leaders
Mentorship and outreach programs are often considered as side projects. Although they are a nice way to spend time and have some fun, one may say they rarely add new long-term contributors to your company project or a community. Is it true? Is it even the main goal? Or is it about team bonding and growing new maintainers and community leaders?
Let’s talk about organizing mentorship programs so that they help to grow your current community and contributors. How to involve a contributor into wider community efforts? How to help them grow and take on new roles? Let’s talk about various program types: from wide outreach programs like GSoC or Hacktoberfest, newcomer assistance, focused maintainer mentoring programs, and to individual leadership training like shadow officers.
Oleg Nenashev
Community Builder at WireMock, CNCF/CDF Ambassador, Jenkins maintainer
Oleg is a passionate Open Whatever advocate: software, hardware and communities. He is a TOC member in the Continuous Delivery Foundation. Oleg is a core maintainer and board member in Jenkins, and also WireMock and OpenFeature co-maintainer. Oleg has a PhD degree in hardware design and volunteers in the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation. He created a few pet projects like Testcontainers for C/C++ or FaaScinator. CNCF and CDF Ambassador, Testcontainers Champion