From 1517931df8cad084fbf963cf8f9d7a8b1915d688 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jane Lusby Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:21:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] almost final draft of expectations --- README.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 845670b..8cb5183 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -10,16 +10,33 @@ To apply, simply [open an issue](https://github.com/RustBeginners/awesome-rust-m ### Expectations For Mentors -[Work in progress](https://github.com/RustBeginners/awesome-rust-mentors/issues/1) +Mentors are expected to... +* Be a friend and guide to their mentee, be their constant cheerleader and enable them to achieve their goals. +* Provide constructive feedback, pass on things you've learned in the course of working in open source. + * For example, if your mentee is working on something cool encourage them to blog about it, give a talk about it at a local meetup, or both! +* Be responsive, apprioximately < 1 day for a response is a good goal. Not getting feedback for long periods of time can be discouraging, even if all you can do is say that you're busy, try to respond promptly. +* Introduce your mentee to other Rustaceans. You aren't expected to know everything that your mentee might be interested, but knowing people who can help and facilitating introductions is important. + +Mentors are not expected to... +* Be a tutor. Mentors and Tutors are not the same, one advises, the other teaches. You are not expected to teach your mentee the language, only to advise them on how to participate in the Rust community. +* Be a manager. You're not expected to assign work to your mentees and make sure it gets done, thats a job in its own right. Though if you're maintaining a project that your mentee is getting involved in maybe this doesn't apply to you, but thats more of a maintainer role than a mentor role. +* Be payed. This is a volunteer service. Please do not plan on asking mentees to pay for your time. ### Expectations For Mentees -[Work in progress](https://github.com/RustBeginners/awesome-rust-mentors/issues/11) +Mentees are expected to... +* Remember that our mentors are all volunteers, be kind and friendly. +* Inform us if you have any problems with your mentor, such as being non responsive for a long period of time, approximately > 1 week or so, or if they violate the CoC. +* Provide feedback, on this repository or on your mentor, let us know if there are any ways in which we are not serving your needs, this project is all about you, help us help you. ### Missing Mentor Topics If there are any topics of interest that you're looking for that aren't covered by any of the mentors here just open an issue to let us know! We will do our best to find a mentor for that topic / library / whatever and get them to sign up. +### Exercism.io + +If you're looking for someone to mentor solutions for exercism.io just look for mentors that have `exercism.io` as one of their mentor topics, they will be happy to help. + ## Mentors See https://rustbeginners.github.io/awesome-rust-mentors/ From 1ebd7d7c540a384d254598b0f5632264ea737dc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jane Lusby Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:33:32 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] consistent tense --- README.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8cb5183..6e43e68 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,23 +11,23 @@ To apply, simply [open an issue](https://github.com/RustBeginners/awesome-rust-m ### Expectations For Mentors Mentors are expected to... -* Be a friend and guide to their mentee, be their constant cheerleader and enable them to achieve their goals. +* Be a friend and guide to your mentee, be their constant cheerleader and enable them to achieve their goals. * Provide constructive feedback, pass on things you've learned in the course of working in open source. * For example, if your mentee is working on something cool encourage them to blog about it, give a talk about it at a local meetup, or both! * Be responsive, apprioximately < 1 day for a response is a good goal. Not getting feedback for long periods of time can be discouraging, even if all you can do is say that you're busy, try to respond promptly. -* Introduce your mentee to other Rustaceans. You aren't expected to know everything that your mentee might be interested, but knowing people who can help and facilitating introductions is important. +* Introduce your mentee to other Rustaceans. You aren't expected to know everything that your mentee might be interested in, but knowing people who can help and facilitating introductions is important. Mentors are not expected to... * Be a tutor. Mentors and Tutors are not the same, one advises, the other teaches. You are not expected to teach your mentee the language, only to advise them on how to participate in the Rust community. * Be a manager. You're not expected to assign work to your mentees and make sure it gets done, thats a job in its own right. Though if you're maintaining a project that your mentee is getting involved in maybe this doesn't apply to you, but thats more of a maintainer role than a mentor role. -* Be payed. This is a volunteer service. Please do not plan on asking mentees to pay for your time. +* Be payed. This is a volunteer service. Please do not plan on asking mentees to pay you for your time. ### Expectations For Mentees Mentees are expected to... * Remember that our mentors are all volunteers, be kind and friendly. * Inform us if you have any problems with your mentor, such as being non responsive for a long period of time, approximately > 1 week or so, or if they violate the CoC. -* Provide feedback, on this repository or on your mentor, let us know if there are any ways in which we are not serving your needs, this project is all about you, help us help you. +* Provide feedback, on this repository or on your mentor, let us know if there are any ways in which we are not serving your needs, this project is all about you after all, help us help you. ### Missing Mentor Topics From 5732f7e18a2348d91c655bb97f29e0a65b36b188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jane Lusby Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:40:39 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] payed to paid --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6e43e68..3923225 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Mentors are expected to... Mentors are not expected to... * Be a tutor. Mentors and Tutors are not the same, one advises, the other teaches. You are not expected to teach your mentee the language, only to advise them on how to participate in the Rust community. * Be a manager. You're not expected to assign work to your mentees and make sure it gets done, thats a job in its own right. Though if you're maintaining a project that your mentee is getting involved in maybe this doesn't apply to you, but thats more of a maintainer role than a mentor role. -* Be payed. This is a volunteer service. Please do not plan on asking mentees to pay you for your time. +* Be paid. This is a volunteer service. Please do not plan on asking mentees to pay you for your time. ### Expectations For Mentees