Mentor Working Group Meeting - 15 May 2025
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<h5 id="attendance">Attendance</h5>
<ul>
<li>Chris Darke 'ChrisDarke'</li>
<li>Matthew Radcliffe 'mradcliffe'</li>
<li>Rachel Lawson 'rachel_norfolk'</li>
</ul>
<h6 id="previous-meeting-action-items">Previous meeting action items</h6>
<ul>
<li>Create remaining issues for topics.</li>
<li>Continue working on issues.</li>
<li>Ask mentoring leads who wants to be the Vienna 2025 coordinator prior to monthly meta meeting.</li>
<li>Create issue for this week's meeting minutes.</li>
</ul>
<h5 id="mapping-out-and-auditing-all-mentoring-pages-on-drupalorg-google-drives-opensocial-contribution">Mapping out and auditing all Mentoring pages on drupal.org, Google drive(s), OpenSocial contribution</h5>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3522247">https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3522247</a></li>
<li>Spreadsheet is ready in the drive, but needs a run-through of how to map/audit as an example.</li>
</ul>
<h5 id="updating-timeframe-documents-and-converting-to-a-spreadsheet-including-subtask-files">Updating timeframe documents and converting to a spreadsheet including subtask files</h5>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3521475">https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3521475</a></li>
<li>Reached out to Michaela and Nicole, but have not had any feedback. Need to schedule something specific.</li>
</ul>
<h5 id="resolving-the-calendar-for-meetings-and-events">Resolving the calendar for meetings and events</h5>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3522277">https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3522277</a></li>
<li>Rachel asked Tim about the core calendar.
<ul>
<li>The calendar is active and being used, but need to ask about a working group specific calendar.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3521850">https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3521850</a></li>
<li>Automation for ICS files worked out nicely.</li>
<li>Not sure how to get ICS files into GitLab pages.</li>
</ul>
<h5 id="agreeing-on-the-document-store-writing-up-the-proposal">Agreeing on the Document store — writing up the proposal</h5>
<ul>
<li>We are holding on this topic until the audit is complete.</li>
<li>We can setup initial GitLab pages. Split into new issue — Matthew</li>
</ul>
<h5 id="drupalforge-drupalpod">DrupalForge / DrupalPod</h5>
<ul>
<li>Matthew created issue for DrupalPod maintainership — <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalpod/issues/3521853">https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalpod/issues/3521853</a></li>
<li>Darren has volunteered as well.</li>
<li>Next step is to reach out to Ofer.</li>
<li>Worried about a new tool prior to Vienna and writing documentation more than once.</li>
<li>Deadline in order to prepare writing documentation should be 1 month prior to Vienna.</li>
</ul>
<h5 id="monthly-mentoring-meeting">Monthly Mentoring Meeting</h5>
<ul>
<li>Any follow-ups needed?</li>
<li>Reach out to mentoring leads channel asking interest in taking lead role at Vienna (or Nara).</li>
<li>Following the documentation for meetings went well.</li>
<li>Questions clarifying DrupalContribution.org use.</li>
<li>Remove links at top and update content to clarify intent of mentor communication for Mentored contribution events.</li>
<li>James brought up mentoring outside of events.</li>
<li>Question about scope of mentoring team.
<ul>
<li>Current scope in Mentor and Coordinator roles (as well as old list of duties for coordinator page)</li>
<li>Capacity for being able to do / encourage / organize non-event mentoring i.e. core office hours and Novice issue triage.</li>
<li>Personal struggle to put in more hours.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Follow-up on new contributor vibe-coding incident
<ul>
<li>Nobody was able to mentor contributor in #contribute after being told where to ask.</li>
<li>Is there a better way to be alerted or notified to mentoring opportunities?</li>
<li>Discuss at Vienna in a Birds of a Feather? (Rachel will add one)</li>
<li>Communicate goal of Mentoring how to contribute rather than mentoring how to code.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h5 id="drupalcon-vienna-planning">DrupalCon Vienna Planning</h5>
<ul>
<li>Event planning lead - Chris</li>
<li>Rachel + James running first-time contributor workshop.</li>
<li>Document canonical first-time contributor workshop slides in the documentation issue.
<ul>
<li>Need more than one canonical slide deck</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Mentored contribution room lead - </li>
<li>Communications lead - Igor volunteered</li>
<li>Novice issue triage lead - Rodrigo <em>tentatively</em> volunteered <em>if he is able to attend</em>.</li>
<li>Booth lead - </li>
<li>Tools lead - Matthew can help remotely, not on-site.</li>
</ul>
<h5 id="action-items">Action Items</h5>
<p>We did not get to this part of the meeting.</p>
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