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So: I'm in the early stages of planning a short course about
effective mentoring; what we know about communicating and educating
people, how that applies to our community, best practices to adopt
and pitfalls to avoid. I'd like to subject people inside Mozilla to
this thing and then expand that out to community contributors who
we'd like to see become mentors. <br>
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If you're interested in being a part of that - as a recipient or
contributor - let me know.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This sounds awesome! I've been mentoring a small amount online and a bit more locally (in person), and I'd certainly love to get better at it.<br><br></div><div>(I'm a community contributor, not "inside" Mozilla, though)<br>
<br></div><div>Additionally, the course resources (slides, videos, etc) might be useful for other FOSS projects as well. I've noticed that Mozilla is one of the most welcoming and helpful projects for newbies, and I recommend it often for that reason (Mediawiki is another, but less so.) Sharing these resources might improve the newbie environment for other projects/organizations.<br>
<br></div><div>-Manish<br></div></div></div></div>