Mentor Meeting 10 May 2023 (#3358613) · Issues · project / mentoring

Mentor Meeting 10 May 2023

>>> [!note] Migrated issue   Reported by: [volkswagenchick](https://www.drupal.org/user/3332522) >>> <p>Mentor Meeting 10 May 2023</p> <p>This meeting is on 10 May in the #mentoring channel on Drupal Slack at 2000 UTC. This meeting is text-only, no audio or video, and is asynchronous so everyone can join in as they're available for about 24 hours. After that’ll we'll capture notes from the threads.</p> <p>Please add agenda items by editing this issue summary or commenting below.</p> <p>Draft Agenda</p> <p>:drupal-mentoring: :drupal-mentoring: :drupal-mentoring:<br> Hello everyone. Welcome to the Drupal Core Mentoring Meta Meeting! :calendar: This meeting:<br> ➤ Usually happens on the second Wednesday of the month, or as needed for events.<br> ➤ is text only!<br> ➤ happens in threads, which you can follow to be notified of new replies even if you don’t comment in the thread. You may also join the meeting later and participate asynchronously.<br> ➤ refers to various issues and plans tracking in the mentoring project on d.o: <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/mentoring">https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/mentoring</a><br> ➤ :star: Please comment on the meeting agenda [<a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3358613]">https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3358613]</a> so we can grant you credit for attending/contributing!</p> <p>:zero: Roll Call! Who’s here today? Comment in a thread here to introduce yourself, include your drupal.org name, and if you're up to it, what are you currently learning in tech in general?</p> <p>:one: :zero: Pittsburgh 2023 - Mentoring Contribution is on Wednesday.</p> <p>:one: :one: Are you planning to attend?</p> <p>:one: :two: mentoring lead opportunities.<br> - [planning lead](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentored-contribution-event-planning-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentored-contribution-event-planning-lead</a>)<br> - [mentored contribution room leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentoring-room-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentoring-room-lead</a>)<br> - [novice issue triage leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/novice-issue-triage-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/novice-issue-triage-lead</a>)<br> - [booth leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentoring-booth-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentoring-booth-lead</a>)<br> - [communications leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentor-communications-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentor-communications-lead</a>)<br> - [first-time workshop leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/first-time-contributor-workshop-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/first-time-contributor-workshop-lead</a>)<br> - [community tools leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/community-tools-lead-for-mentoring">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/community-tools-lead-for-mentoring</a>)<br> - mentored contribution welcome area leads</p> <p>:one: :three: ACTION ITEM: Create recruiting copy for DrupalCon NA 2023 mentors. This is for twitter posts, blurbs in DA newsletters, etc. <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3358612">https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3358612</a></p> <p>:one: :four: BoFs are scheduled</p> <ul> <li>Mentor orientation 1: Monday, 5 June at 3p-4p in RM 326 at tables 1 & 2</li> <li>Mentor orientation 2: Tuesday, 6 June at 9a-10a in RM 326 tables 1 & 2</li> <li>Issue queue triage: Tuesday, 6 June at 3p-4p in RM 326 tables 1 & 2</li> </ul> <p>:one: :four: Booth duty! We have a booth in the expo hall all day on Tuesday. The Events Working Group has the booth Monday and are willing to support us in any way the can. </p> <p>:two: Discover Drupal mentors... How is everything going?</p> <p>:three: From Tim: Random idea for a future mentoring meeting - would it make sense for there to be a separate #first-contribution channel from #contribute - where we could funnel some first time contributors, and folks here who want to mentor could keep an eye on? Visit: <a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C4K9UPX9P/p1683653491641899">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C4K9UPX9P/p1683653491641899</a></p> <p>:four: Open floor/other topics. Please start a new thread.</p> <p>That's it for now! Continue the conversation in the threads above or below and in issues. Remember to post in the meeting issue or in the roll call thread! And volunteer!!!!</p> <p>Link to Slack:<br> <a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C4K9UPX9P/p1683748829020469">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C4K9UPX9P/p1683748829020469</a></p> <p>slack meeting notes:</p> <h2>:drupal-mentoring: :drupal-mentoring: :drupal-mentoring: Hello everyone. Welcome to the Drupal Core Mentoring Meta Meeting! :calendar: This meeting: ➤ Usually happens on the second Wednesday of the month, or as needed for events. ➤ is text only! ➤ happens in threads, which you can follow to be notified of new replies even if you don’t comment in the thread. You may also join the meeting later and participate asynchronously. ➤ refers to various issues and plans tracking in the mentoring project on d.o: <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3358613" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3358613: Mentor Meeting 10 May 2023</a></span>] so we can grant you credit for attending/contributing!</h2> <table> </table> <h2>0️⃣ Roll Call! Who’s here today? Comment in a thread here to introduce yourself, include your drupal.org name, and if you’re up to it, what are you currently learning in tech in general?</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Elli Ludwigson</td> <td>I am here :smile: Elli aka ekl1773, currently learning more about big picture AI concepts and concerns.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tim Lehnen</td> <td>Tim from the DA :wave::skin-tone-3: hestenet</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rolando Scott</td> <td>Hi, Rolando.. rolandoscott at do.. i am currently thinking big pictures things and Composable Architecture</td> </tr> <tr> <td>AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)</td> <td>AmyJune (volkswagenchick) - Currently learning ASCIIDOC</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Matthew Ramir</td> <td>:wave: Matt (crasx). Not learning anything specific ATM</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bob Snodgrass (he/him)</td> <td>Bob (bsnodgrass) I’m learning new things in all the places… digging into schemadotorg Blueprints and seeing what I can do with the current state of #distributions-and-recipesif only… time</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Martin Anderson-Clutz</td> <td>Martin (mandclu), currently learning Next.js/React</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sarah Corbine</td> <td>Sarah (scorbine). Working on soft skills today, aka writing and documentation.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Phil Frilling</td> <td>Phil, pfrilling. Learned about the null_coalesce migrate process plugin today. Very useful.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Gregg Marshall</td> <td>Gregg (greggmarshall), taking a Microsoft Azure certification renewal course.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol</td> <td>Kristen, California, catching up, I’m learning Midjourney can trip out if you just give it one word <a href="https://twitter.com/kristen_pol/status/1656381655286976512?s=20">https://twitter.com/kristen_pol/status/1656381655286976512?s=20</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Amanda Marshall</td> <td>Amanda (Amarshall)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Chris Darke</td> <td>Chris (ChrisDarke) a bit late, because I was asleep when this started, just cycling a lot at the moment on holiday..</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mark Casias</td> <td>wow... I can't believe I spaced this,, here-ish</td> </tr> </table> <h2>1️⃣ 0️⃣ Pittsburgh 2023 - Mentored Contribution is on Wednesday!</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Amber Matz</td> <td>FYI - As part of Wednesday's Contribution Day Initiatives Keynote, I'm presenting (remotely) on #bugsmash and #needs-review-queue-initiative. I plan to do a mini-lesson on issue triage during my portion of the talk. Mentors, feel free to send folks to these channels especially if they are interested in doing issue triage, reviews, updating issue summaries, adding steps to reproduce. Thank you!</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Gábor Hojtsy (he/him)</td> <td>Is issue triage also a topic on first timers workshop or at mentored tables, or they always get pre-triaged issues?</td> </tr> </table> <h2>1️⃣ 1️⃣ Are you planning to attend? Do you feel ready? How can we help?</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Rolando Scott</td> <td>I am.. buying airplane tickets this week to keep it late and exciting lol..</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Elli Ludwigson</td> <td>oh my living on the edge!</td> </tr> <tr> <td>AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)</td> <td>Yes, already have everything booked... do I feel ready? no</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Elli Ludwigson</td> <td>I’m driving and staying with a friend buuuut also speaking and definitely Not Ready on that front :scream_cat:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rolando Scott</td> <td>yeah @ekl1773 i hate to keep it so late, but had to make sure certain things clicked..</td> </tr> <tr> <td>AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)</td> <td>Oh yeah, speaking too, having to take a 2 hour workshop and make it 50 min... no pressure</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tim Lehnen</td> <td>I guess I'll be there :stuck_out_tongue:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Matthew Ramir</td> <td>Ready and excited!!</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bob Snodgrass (he/him)</td> <td>I’d say I am about 75% possible</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sarah Corbine</td> <td>I’ll be living vicariously through all of you.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Martin Anderson-Clutz</td> <td>Everything is booked so I will be there. Ready? No</td> </tr> <tr> <td>AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)</td> <td>I'll drink a Heineken for you Sarah</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Phil Frilling</td> <td>Yes I'm attending and ready.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Stephen Mustgrave</td> <td>I’ll be there!</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Gregg Marshall</td> <td>I'll be there</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol</td> <td>All booked and absolutely nowhere near ready… haven’t started to get ready :grimacing:</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Chris Darke</td> <td>All booked, all “ready” but not really!</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Carol Pettirossi</td> <td>I'll attend. Really excited to go as It will be my first DrupalCon. 🙂  I don't feel ready to help leading any rooms cause it will be my first and I'm not sure how the conference logistics are, etc. (edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mark Casias</td> <td>will be there</td> </tr> </table> <h2>1️⃣ 2️⃣ mentoring lead opportunities. We have a few folks signed up but could use a few more updates to the issue here- [planning lead](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentored-contribution-event-planning-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentored-contribution-event-planning-lead</a>)- [mentored contribution room leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentoring-room-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentoring-room-lead</a>)- [novice issue triage leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/novice-issue-triage-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/novice-issue-triage-lead</a>)- [booth leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentoring-booth-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentoring-booth-lead</a>)- [communications leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentor-communications-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/mentor-communications-lead</a>)- :checked: [first-time workshop leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/first-time-contributor-workshop-lead">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/first-time-contributor-workshop-lead</a>)- [community tools leads](<a href="https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/community-tools-lead-for-mentoring">https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/role/community-tools-lead-for-mentoring</a>)- :checked: mentored contribution welcome area leads (edited) </h2> <table> <tr> <td>Rolando Scott</td> <td>@ekl1773 the first link to planning lead gives me a 404.. actually a lot of these seem to have gotten cut off (edited)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Elli Ludwigson</td> <td>oh bother. thank you. I think I fixed it</td> </tr> </table> <h2>1️⃣ 3️⃣ ACTION ITEM: Create recruiting copy for DrupalCon NA 2023 mentors. This is for twitter posts, blurbs in DA newsletters, etc. Who can draft a couple sentences to help get the word out?? <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3358612" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3358612: [META] Create copy for DrupalCon NA 2023 mentoring program</a></span></h2> <table> <tr> <td>Matthew Ramir</td> <td>Following, how do we feel about using gpt to help with this? Is that illegal?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tim Lehnen</td> <td>As long as it's carefully proof read, I think that'd be fine to give folks some inspiration.It's not the same thing as creating a larger publication where I would worry about the copyright of it 'borrowing' language.For social copy and the like, I think at the very least it could help spark ideas, even if y'all wind up rewording them completely</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Elli Ludwigson</td> <td>There are plenty of old ones in the mentoring twitter account for inspiration, also.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tim Lehnen</td> <td>Good point!</td> </tr> </table> <h2>1️⃣ 4️⃣ BoFs are scheduled :yay: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gQ5HF4BdEf_H-XcyRu3_2Jo_2X60WEuI/view">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gQ5HF4BdEf_H-XcyRu3_2Jo_2X60WEuI/view</a> (PDF)Mentor orientation 1: Monday, 5 June at 3p-4p in RM 326 at tables 1 & 2Mentor orientation 2: Tuesday, 6 June at 9a-10a in RM 326 tables 1 & 2Issue queue triage: Tuesday, 6 June at 3p-4p in RM 326 tables 1 & 2</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Matthew Ramir</td> <td>Do we have that opensocial thing this year?</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Elli Ludwigson</td> <td>Well it’s here, I’m not personally certain of plans around it though <a href="https://www.drupalcontribution.org/group/contribution-mentors-drupalcon-pittsburgh-2023/events">https://www.drupalcontribution.org/group/contribution-mentors-drupalcon-pittsburgh-2023/events</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Chris Darke</td> <td>Do we have anyone facilitating those bofs yet? Last year someone couldn’t make it and I ended up running two bofs back to back, wouldn’t mind some backup.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Elli Ludwigson</td> <td>I'm wayway too rusty/out of date but will try and be there as moral support?</td> </tr> </table> <h2>1️⃣ 5️⃣ Booth duty! We have a booth in the expo hall all day on Tuesday. The Events Working Group has the booth Monday and are willing to support us in any way the can. Who wants to hang at the booth?</h2> <table> <tr> <td>AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)</td> <td>I'll be there on and off.. between BoFs and my session.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bob Snodgrass (he/him)</td> <td>If I indeed make it, I would be willing to do some duty in the booth</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol</td> <td>I will probably play hooky Tuesday to do stuff with my son who’s coming with me (and not attending DrupalCon) but I might be able to do an hour in the morning</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Chris Darke</td> <td>Will be there</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Phil Frilling</td> <td>I'll help man the booth.</td> </tr> </table> <h2>3️⃣ From Tim: Random idea for a future mentoring meeting - would it make sense for there to be a separate #first-contribution channel from #contribute - where we could funnel some first time contributors, and folks here who want to mentor could keep an eye on? Visit: <a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C4K9UPX9P/p1683653491641899">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C4K9UPX9P/p1683653491641899</a></h2> <table> <tr> <td>AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)</td> <td>I think this is a good idea.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Elli Ludwigson</td> <td>Does seem sensible, so long as there is solid cross-linking for longterm strategy of getting folks into #contribute</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tim Lehnen</td> <td>We could implement some of these steps: <a href="https://slack.com/slack-tips/automatically-onboard-new-channel-membersAnd">https://slack.com/slack-tips/automatically-onboard-new-channel-membersAnd</a> add bookmarmks to the top of each channel</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol</td> <td>I like it as long as we have enough mentors in the channel</td> </tr> </table> <h2>4️⃣ Open floor/other topics. Please start a new thread.</h2> <table> </table> <h2>That’s it for now! Continue the conversation in the threads above or below and in issues. Remember to post in the meeting issue or in the roll call thread! And volunteer!!!!</h2> <table> <tr> <td>AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)</td> <td>Thanks @ekl1773 for leading the meeting!</td> </tr> </table> <h2>Is there a mentor dinner at Pittsburgh?</h2> <table> <tr> <td>Kristen Pol</td> <td>Not sure I could go but curious</td> </tr> <tr> <td>AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)</td> <td>we havent started working on that - yet</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Mark Casias</td> <td>I'd eat dinner..</td> </tr> <tr> <td>AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)</td> <td>Last year I gathered money froom some agencies to host a dinner, and then MidCamp helped.. I just don't have the bandwidth to put that together this year.We can always book a place and self pay.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)</td> <td>I'll add that to the agenda this week.</td> </tr> <p>Participants:</p> <p>Elli Ludwigson, Tim Lehnen, Rolando Scott, AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick), Matthew Ramir, Bob Snodgrass (he/him), Martin Anderson-Clutz, Sarah Corbine, Phil Frilling, Gregg Marshall, Kristen Pol, Amanda Marshall, Chris Darke, Mark Casias, Amber Matz, Gábor Hojtsy, Stephen Mustgrave, Carol Pettirossi</p> </table>

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