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Mentoring new or first-time speakers #51

Closed sugaroverflow closed 6 years ago

sugaroverflow commented 7 years ago

A few months ago, we came up with the wonderful #session-help channel in the Drupal slack to find and mentor new speakers for Drupalcon.

I thought it would be a great idea for us to build on this at DC Baltimore and thought everyone would have some ideas. Maybe something like having people sign up as mentors or new-speakers-to-be and matching them up in some way?

AlannaBurke commented 7 years ago

As a first time speaker, what I would most like is for some experienced folks to come to sessions in case of troublemakers. My sessions aren't controversial (I don't think?) but I don't want to worry about it. I'll have my team members there, but not everyone will, and I think there are probably other first-time speakers who will rest easier knowing there are some folks in the audience ready to handle things should anything go south.

heyrocker commented 7 years ago

I'm happy to work with new speakers when future events are occurring!

justAChris commented 7 years ago

The issue of representation in the Drupal Watchdog magazine came up in the #diversity-inclusion channel today. Maybe this mentoring issue should expand to all forms of presentation (including articles and book publication), not just speaking.

sugaroverflow commented 7 years ago

@justAChris Thank you for your idea :)

I would like to keep this initiative within the scope of new speakers at Drupal events. I think keeping it specific will allow us to come up with more actionable items and get something small started and build upon it.


There's definitely value in mentoring on other forms of presentation - so maybe that's a discussion issue we can open for some brainstorming?

justAChris commented 7 years ago

@sugaroverflow Ha, I almost added "or we can open a separate issue for this" to my initial comment. Agree, focused issues to get actionable items. I've opened https://github.com/drupaldiversity/administration/issues/67 for discussion.

sugaroverflow commented 6 years ago

I'm closing this initiative for now because we haven't gotten a lot of traction and I don't think we have the capacity to manage it.

Anyone should feel to reopen if they would like to lead on this. Thank you for your work!