Create a framework to mandate curating blogs/ recording on-demand webinar post mentorship completion

[prithvi1307]

While the LFX mentorship programme and GSoC have reaped benefits to the participating projects and mentees, there is a lack of awareness and input that comes back to the CNCF post the tenure of the mentorship.

The idea is to benefit from our efforts and ensure more participation from students and also more success stories to come out, to enable more student and project participation.

I want to kickstart this discussion around what we can do to ensure that these stories are going back to the community or we can get the most out of it.

The idea is to ensure that lfx mentees/mentors engage mandatorily in writing a blog or recording an on-demand webinar on completion of their tenure. This can be done by changing the guidelines on the mentee program itself or by engaging with the mentors to getting this done. And only declaring a mentee as passed after receiving the blog.

This is going to be a great way of involving students and ensuring more participation moving ahead. Also, might help us better our efforts in improving the program itself

[aliok]

Let's discuss this in the next mentoring WG meeting!

https://tockify.com/cncf.public.events/monthly?search=Mentoring%20WG&startms=1714003200000

[aliok]

@prithvi1307

We've discussed this in today's WG meeting.

Here are some notes:

• We already encourage mentees to write blog posts
• We don’t want to mandate it to block the stipend payments
• We already have a few mentees every term writing blog posts
• Mentors/mentees might not have the skills
  • We would need to provide assistance, which might be hard due to resource constraints
  • We might provide a blogpost template, which might help with mentees to write the blogposts. This might help with having more blogposts.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sSYRo-5yxJggGg3JVATxMKdxVWbY_ZGD2mhKlPNW7qM/edit#bookmark=id.dbrycpi38v74

@prithvi1307 Would you be interested in starting a template for that?

[aliok]

I've created this ticket: https://github.com/cncf/mentoring/issues/1256