Mentor Meeting - 13 March 2024
This meeting is on 13 March in the #mentoring channel on Drupal Slack at 20:00 UTC. This meeting is text-only, no audio or video, and is asynchronous so everyone can join in as they're available for about 24 hours. After that, we'll capture notes from the threads.
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Hello everyone. Welcome to the Drupal Core Mentoring Meta Meeting! :calendar: This meeting:
➤ Usually happens on the second Wednesday of the month, or as needed for events.
➤ is text only!
➤ happens in threads, which you can follow to be notified of new replies even if you don’t comment in the thread. You may also join the meeting later and participate asynchronously.
➤ refers to various issues and plans tracking in the mentoring project on d.o:
https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/mentoring →
➤ :star: Please comment on the meeting agenda at
https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3427120
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Mentor Meeting - 13 March 2024
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:zero: Roll Call! Who’s here today? Comment in a thread here to introduce yourself, include your drupal.org name, and if you're up to answering an icebreaker, , tell me how long it has been since you stuck yourself to something with super glue…
Lawson
21 hours ago
Rachel here, rachel_norfolk, and I managed to stick myself to my motorbike only this evening before the call! Now typing with no sensitivity in one glue-covered finger...
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mradcliffe
:drupal-mentoring: 21 hours ago
Matthew here, mradcliffe. I don't remember the last time I stuck myself with super glue or regular glue.
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AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
21 hours ago
AmyJune, volkswagenchick. I got stuck to a flowerpot two weekends ago
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Kristen Pol
:palm_tree: 21 hours ago
Kristen, California, fun question… it’s been awhile for sure. I try to avoid it for that reason :laughing:
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Chris Darke
21 hours ago
Chris Darke, ChrisDarke.. and about 4 days :)
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James Shields (lostcarpark)
20 hours ago
James here, lostcarpark. I don't think I've ever actually stuck myself to anything, but I do meddle with the stuff from time to time, and occasionally end up with touching a blob that gets pushed out when you push two halves together. Hate the feeling of it stuck to your fingertips for a few days until it wears off.
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Rodrigo Aguilera
20 hours ago
Hello. I think it was two years ago that I glued two fingers together into a "One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor" position
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Randy Fay
20 hours ago
Randy, rfay, oh no wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
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michael anello
20 hours ago
One does not simply stick themselves to things with superglue…
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Chris Darke
20 hours ago
It helps if you have super glue accelerant spray
Gregg Marshall
2 hours ago
Gregg. greggmarshall. That's why I wear gloves when using superglue
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Amanda Marshall
2 hours ago
Amanda, Amarshall. Longer then I can remember
:one: :zero: DrupalCon Portland: current tasks that do not have a thread
:one: :one: DrupalCon Portland: who plans to attend?
Rachel Lawson
21 hours ago
I won’t be there, I’m afraid. But these awesome people WILL be!!! >>>>>>
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AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
21 hours ago
:wave:
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Kristen Pol
:palm_tree: 21 hours ago
Yep :+1:
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mradcliffe
:drupal-mentoring: 21 hours ago
Yes, I have a flight, but no ticket or hotel yet.
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Chris Darke
21 hours ago
Got the hotel but not the flight or ticket
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Randy Fay
20 hours ago
I have it all set now, will be there.
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michael anello
20 hours ago
Me.
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Mauricio Dinarte (he/him)
19 hours ago
:wave:
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Gábor Hojtsy (he/him)
4 hours ago
:wave:
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Gregg Marshall
2 hours ago
I'll be there
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Amanda Marshall
2 hours ago
I will be there
:one: :two: Any takers to lead the new first-time contribution workshop in Portland? It is fully scripted and will have been vetted a few times before DrupalCon. By Portland this workshop should be vetted by several camps and there will be no need to run two versions.
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Mauricio Dinarte (he/him)
20 hours ago
I had volunteered for this in the previous meeting. I think Chris Darke had also volunteered. This is run twice, right? So, we would need at least two people? I see there is no need to run it twice. (edited)
Mauricio Dinarte (he/him)
20 hours ago
Have the timeslots for all mentoring activities been set? I see there is another thread where scheduling is being discussed. I would like to add them to my calendar. (edited)
:one: three: Design and plan a NEW banner for Drupal Core Mentoring!!! -
https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3413869
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Design a new roll up banner for Mentoring
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ts=1707941087.154469&channel=C4K9UPX9P&message_ts=1708128888.199169
James Shields (lostcarpark)
Here's a version that incorporates some of the points discussed. I takes some ideas from the banner
@Gábor Hojtsy (he/him)
shared.
mentoring-banner-3.png
mentoring-banner-3.png
From a thread in mentoring-team | 17 Feb | View reply
James Shields (lostcarpark)
20 hours ago
Thank you! I was about to post here.
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James Shields (lostcarpark)
20 hours ago
I'm guessing this is our last chance to refine it before Portland?
James Shields (lostcarpark)
20 hours ago
I'm wondering can we simplify the text a little? I really picked the bullet points off the top of my head.
James Shields (lostcarpark)
20 hours ago
My feeling is about four bullet points in each box would let us leave a little more whitespace and make it look a bit less cramped.
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James Shields (lostcarpark)
20 hours ago
Any thoughts on refining the first box:
Grow your skills with Contribution
• Get the help you need
• Learn to use the tools
• Develop new skills
• Non-code contributions
• Tasks for every skill-set
• Build community
James Shields (lostcarpark)
19 hours ago
"Non-code contributions" and "Tasks for every skill-set" feel slightly out of place, since all the others contain a verb.
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James Shields (lostcarpark)
19 hours ago
They also kind of say the same thing (although every skill set includes code).
James Shields (lostcarpark)
19 hours ago
I'm wondering can we combine them with something that includes a verb?
Gábor Hojtsy (he/him)
4 hours ago
"Let your skills shine" (although skills is repetitive)
Gábor Hojtsy (he/him)
4 hours ago
"Find tasks that fit you"
Gábor Hojtsy (he/him)
4 hours ago
I think that would cover both the non-code and the every skill-set (which are very close to each other in meaning)
:one: Four: DrupalCon Mentoring tickets (New guidelines to be vetted)
- Rotating availability for equity (beyond core mentors)
- Once a year?
- Once every other year?
Requirements - by the hour? By the activity?
- Attend an orientation Bof
- Participate in Issue Triage
- Booth duty
- Year round participation
- Setting up meetings
- Coordinating with social media
Rachel Lawson
21 hours ago
I have to say that I do like these guidelines - they help us the ensure new people get a lift up into getting involved
AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
21 hours ago
Yes, the idea is we can fold more folks into mentoring with diversifying who gets the tickets.
AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
21 hours ago
folks who present the workshops would get speaker tickets, not mentor tickets
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mradcliffe
:drupal-mentoring: 21 hours ago
In the past, I've self-abided by those guidelines.
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Kristen Pol
:palm_tree: 21 hours ago
Nice to have something like this. I don’t think I’ve personally ever used a mentor ticket (just a speaker one). Maybe many of the core mentors haven’t either so unclear on the impact on the core folks
:one:five: Documentation for DrupalCon BoFs. (Orientation and Issue triage) How do we get BoFs on the scheduled? Talking points? etc
Lawson
21 hours ago
are they not already on there?
AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
21 hours ago
I think
@Chris Darke
is working with
@Meghan
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AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
21 hours ago
also we had a mentor want a doc with agenda bullet points for the mentor orientation
Chris Darke
21 hours ago
Details around what each BoF room needs, what the layout of the rooms would be ideally, etc
mradcliffe
:drupal-mentoring: 21 hours ago
I had a list of follow-ups from that zoom meeting, but I have not had any free time to follow-up on them
mradcliffe
:drupal-mentoring: 21 hours ago
But now that I look at that text document I can't understand my own notes.
mradcliffe
:drupal-mentoring: 21 hours ago
Q: "1st time contributor workshop, recording necessary?
Meghan Harrell
21 hours ago
The BOF rooms are what they are.. They are 2 tables in a room. I can’t change the setup. However, we did discuss adding the a session to Tuesday and its being recorded as its a seperate room.
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AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
21 hours ago
I would say no
Kristen Pol
:palm_tree: 21 hours ago
FYI that
@Gábor Hojtsy (he/him)
submitted 3 BoFs related to mentored contribution around Drupal 11 readiness
https://x.com/gaborhojtsy/status/1767909026203865132?s=20
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AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
21 hours ago
we would need 2 orientations and an issue triage
AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
21 hours ago
times and days is the Q at hand?
Meghan Harrell
21 hours ago
Yes.I need times/days
Meghan Harrell
21 hours ago
and, if you don’t want the Tues, I can remove. Its listed on detailed schedule
mradcliffe
:drupal-mentoring: 21 hours ago
Pasting this from the below thread, where I think we last left off,
monday afternoon: 1st orientation - pick a time
tuesday morning: 2nd orientation
tuesday morning: issue triage
tuesday afternoon: 2nd orientation - pick a time
wednesday: contribution day
AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
21 hours ago
do we have any mid week workshops?
Chris Darke
21 hours ago
Yes
Chris Darke
21 hours ago
@Meghan
when did we have the first contrib workshop scheduled? Was it on Tuesday afternoon?
Meghan Harrell
20 hours ago
Tues at 2-3PM in Orgegon Ballroom / “First-time Contributor BoF
Oregon Ballroom 204”
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AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
20 hours ago
I am not speaking this year for DC, the only conflict I would have is the coffee BoF
AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
20 hours ago
monday afternoon: 1st orientation - 2pm
tuesday morning: 2nd orientation 10am
tuesday morning: issue triage 11am
tuesday 2-3: First-time Contributor BoF (we would want a podium)
tuesday afternoon: 2nd orientation - 4pm
wednesday: contribution day
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AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
20 hours ago
What about that? ^^
Rachel Lawson
20 hours ago
the only conflict I would have is the coffee BoF
meh - in my day, we had a whisky BoF...
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Chris Darke
20 hours ago
I think Matt forgot to write down the FTW
Gábor Hojtsy (he/him)
12 hours ago
Re Kristen's FYI not all 3 BoFs are about Drupal 11. :) they are about the three topics (one each) listed on the image posted above.
Kristen Pol
:palm_tree: 12 hours ago
Oops… only scanned from phone and quickly retweeted… apologies for my misinformation :innocent:
Gábor Hojtsy (he/him)
4 hours ago
np
:one:six: DrupalCon would like to have the Bof schedule finalized
F schedule is never finalised???
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mradcliffe
:drupal-mentoring: 21 hours ago
Here were part of those notes:
monday afternoon: 1st orientation - pick a time
tuesday morning: 2nd orientation
tuesday morning: issue triage
tuesday afternoon: 2nd orientation - pick a time
wednesday: contribution day
Randy Fay
20 hours ago
At Pittsburgh there was no option to schedule by the time the conf started.
Current submissions at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekPON2f9zqr47mjEZRTd6wlyZOQppaCUtKzX2j_hgduY4EUw/viewform
I guess I should get busy.
:two: :zero: Lead the all-new, fresh, clean, accessible and fully-scripted First-time Contributed Workshop at an upcoming DrupalCamp! Local camps are in upcoming separate threads. The goal of this slide deck is that anyone can copy it and make adjustments to cater to their own local or regional event. It is flexible enough to run as an hour workshop or a 2-hour training.
lide copies.
Rachel Lawson
20 hours ago
everybody does slides differently - it might just be that we do a title slide? (edited)
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mradcliffe
:drupal-mentoring: 20 hours ago
From my memory/notes, if I copied the event's slide deck in google drive, then I could import them, but it wasn't clear in Google Slides that importing a theme adds those slides to the current theme, but once that was clear, I could go through each slide and apply a different layout, then I would need to update the font and font sizes. Also any images that I pasted from one to the other had to be dragged around manually and resized. So anything to limit that amount of work to focus on the content would be great.
Mauricio Dinarte (he/him)
19 hours ago
Could we get link the current slide deck added to this thread? I would like to pitch it to a couple of events. Having the link would be useful.
:two: :one: Florida DrupalCamp. Mike Anello (Ultimike) volunteered to run the 45 min version. How did it go?
my humble apologies to
@ultimike
- slack don’t have an alligator!
michael anello
20 hours ago
It went swell, I think. I gave
@AmyJune (volkswagenchick)
notes.
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:two: :two: New Jersey. Volunteers needed to run the workshop. xjm is attending.
:two: :three: Mountain Camp. How did the WS go. AmyJune was unable to attend so Jprdana ran it.
Jordana Fung
4 hours ago
Unfortunately did not do the workshop.
It wasn't on the schedule as far as I am aware, however I was a relatively late addition to Mountain Camp but did share resources to the last recording of the workshop to folks who were interested
:two: :four: Drupal South. Suchi Garg (gargsuchi) is running the 45 min version.
:two: :five: MidCamp. Matthew Radcliffe (mradcliffe) volunteered to run (Version not specified). Mark Casias (markie) looking for mentor volunteers to help.
mradcliffe
:drupal-mentoring: 21 hours ago
I'll run the 45 min version again, I think. It's not quite clear what version is which from the unskipped slides that I have, but I think it's the 45 minute version.
:three: :zero: DrupalCon Barcelona 2024 - 2024.09.24 - 2024.09.27: it's never too soon to think ahead to the next event.
:three: :one: DrupalCon Barcelona - who's planning on attending? Scholarships open from April to June.
be in Barcelona!
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mradcliffe
:drupal-mentoring: 20 hours ago
This past month has been pretty busy so I haven't followed up on travel arrangements / scheduling. Once this month's business is sorted, then I can think about it again. Hopefully by April's meeting I have a yes/no.
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Kristen Pol
:palm_tree: 20 hours ago
Probably not but I love Barcelona so it would be fun
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AmyJune Hineline (volkswagenchick)
20 hours ago
:wave:
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Rodrigo Aguilera
20 hours ago
:raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed:
:yay:
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James Shields (lostcarpark)
20 hours ago
I'm planning to be there... no idea how it will actually work out yet.
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Randy Fay
20 hours ago
Likely
Mauricio Dinarte (he/him)
19 hours ago
:wave:
Jordana Fung
4 hours ago
Also planning on being there.
Heads up to folks - there will be a Merce festival around the same time as DC and around the same venue. So it might be best to book ahead of time if possible as I fear availability and prices may go up because all of Spain tends to gather together for the festival (or so I've heard)
Gábor Hojtsy (he/him)
3 hours ago
:wave:
Gregg Marshall
2 hours ago
Depends on flight costs
:four: Documentation for running misc meetings (
https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3409054
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[META] Documentation for running misc meetings
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Can someone create child issues for each meeting type?
:five: Contribution /tools page documentation - https://drupal.org/tools -
https://www.drupal.org/project/documentation/issues/3398293
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Consolidate local development environment documentation to recommend DDEV
Active
- Open questions for mentors:
1. What formatting would help better classify the local, remote, manual testing to help guide a new contributor to the option most correct for them?
Rachel Lawson
20 hours ago
I know several people have been working on docs for drupal tools in general. It would be good to ensure that there is little repetition in the docs as that always ends up out of date at some point
:six: Open floor/other topics. Please start a new thread.
That's it for now! Continue the conversation in the threads above or below and in issues. Remember to post in the meeting issue or in the roll call thread! And volunteer!!!!
