Mentor Working Group Meeting - 24 April 2025

Created on 28 April 2025, 9 days ago

Mentoring Working Group Minutes 2025.04.24

In Attendance

  • Matthew Radcliffe 'mradcliffe'
  • Chris Darke 'ChrisDarke'

Action items from previous meeting minutes:

  • Create issues for existing action items so we can refer to those issues in future meetings.
  • Update new coordinator issue title and scope, move to core isuse queue, and create a merge request.
  • Bylaws

New Coordinator Discussion

  • Rachel moved the issue to the core issue queue.
  • James created the merge request
  • Issue is now RTBC
  • Next step: invite James to Slack channel — done

Cleaning up Slack channel membership

  • Post message/notification about Slack channel membership.

Mapping out and auditing all Mentoring pages on drupal.org, Google drive(s), OpenSocial contribution

  • Rachel assigned herself to track/being assigned to this topic.
  • This would be a great task for James to help out with.
  • Need to create issue by 29th of April

  • Member platform would be great if we could be a test / use case and we would not need to worry about implementation.

    • Contribution idea for new and first-time contributors to work on it.
      • Matt needs to triage issues for MidCamp's Member Platform and Event Platform contribution day.
    • No definitive action items for this yet.

Updating timeframe documents and converting to a spreadsheet including subtask files

  • Chris is okay with tracking/being assigned to this topic.
  • Chris started timelines spreadsheet document.
    • We need to get something together soon so we can send a draft to Kuoni.
    • Potentially there are exportable lists depending on different schedules from different event organizers and companies.
    • Complete first draft by 29th of April
  • Need to create issue by 29th of April
  • Need to define the Europe Coordinator lead - will send out a message on the leads channel.

Resolving the calendar for meetings and events

  • Matthew is assigned to this topic.
  • Need to create issue by 29th of April — Matthew
    • Automation job looks a bit more complex than an out-of-the-box solution.
  • Rachel will ask Tim about whether we should have these on the Drupal Core Calendar.

Agreeing on the Document store — writing up the proposal

  • Chris is assigned to this topic.
  • Need to create issue by 29th of April to organize all further Mentoring documentation.
    • Reference information it GitLab pages.
    • Roles, Skills, and Tasks on drupal.org
    • YouTube videos
  • Need to create issue by 29th of April to create a Bylaws document (can be empty) to be stored in GitLab pages.

DrupalForge / DrupalPod Update

  • Technical working group around contribution tools / contribution kit still needs to be formed. 14th of May is next Mentoring meeting. So bringing this up as an agenda item at the next mentoring meeting.
  • Issues credits:
    • It would be tricky to get people to remember to add the "for customer" in their comments.
    • Issue tag for people using DrupalForge?
    • Do they credit if not using DrupalForge?
  • Need to create an issue for co-maintainership of DrupalPod — Matthew
  • Once this is working we will need to update videos / assets - need to make an issue

Mentoring Working Group Meeting

  • Should we still be doing weekly?
    • Weekly is still good.
  • Should we change the time?
    • Thursday is fine at 17:00 UTC.

Action items

  • Create issues for existing action items so we can refer to those issues in future meetings. (See notes above)
  • Post the message to those in mentoring leads channel about channel cleanup.
  • Reminder for all leads to create the agenda item for 14 May 2025 Meeting
  • Create issue for the minutes.
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