Mentor Meeting - 11 June 2025
This meeting is on 11 June in the #mentoring-team-coordination 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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Draft Agenda
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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/3528273 so we can grant you credit for attending/contributing! Please note, we will only give attributions for active engagement.
: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, what's the most interesting thing you've ever found by chance?
:one: DrupalCon Vienna 2025 - https://www.drupalcontribution.org/vienna2025
:one: :one: Who is planning on attending? Volunteer to be a mentoring team lead — https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/find-your-role
- Mentor Contribution Event Planning lead: rachel_norfolk and chrisdarke volunteered so far
- Mentoring room lead:
- Mentor communications leads: igorgoncalves volunteered so far
- First-time contributor workshop lead:
- Mentoring booth leads:
- Community tools leads:
- Novice issue triage lead: rodrigoaguilera volunteered (if able to attend)
- Mentor Dinner Lead (ideally someone who knows the area?) - Scheduling, Guest list, Reservations
:one: :two: Contribution Tools — DrupalPod with GitPod is no longer a viable option and a replacement needs to tested prior to Contribution Day. From the BoF, a couple of options emerged, not in any particular order. One is requesting maintainership for immediate merge needs re: DrupalForge, mentoring vscode extension, etc... Two is to rethink DrupalPod with a focus on dev containers in general, which will should make it more flexible to switch platforms. DrupalForge is looking like a viable option to explore further -- do we need to alter 1st time contributor workshop to match?
:one: :three: Europe Mentor Box — have we now ordered a new copy of the mentoring roll-up banner to store with the Europe Mentor Box?
:one: :four: Mentor tickets? Form needs to be created now for mentors to sign-up.
:two: Mentor Meta
:two: :one: Maintainers.txt https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3454075 We have follow-up tasks, with regard to reaching out to each member to check current status.
:two: two: Mentoring Working Group (MWG) - https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3445579). We have selected an initial 3-member team who have immediate availability to get started (@ChrisDarke @rachel_norfolk @mradcliffe). Next steps after initial meeting: evaluate, gather feedback, and propose changes to DrupalCon documentation and documentation store, Mentoring Working Group membership, Core Mentoring Coordinators role review, Mentoring Working Group by-laws from Mentoring team and Core Mentoring Coordinators. Pending date for completing this initial phase is after Vienna 2025 using the time until Vienna 2025 to see what works and what does not.
:two: three: Documentation for monthly meetings: https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3479788 - needs refining and review.
:two: :four: First-time Contributor's Workshop. A couple of comments about improving the slides. We need to make it clear which slides are better suited for half-day versus 45-60 minute versions. The initiatives section could use a hidden "help" slide to describe how to create a new initiative slide. Issue open here: https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3527338
:two: :five: Member Platform is a new project that is just getting started. Mentors need a place to sign-up and receive information about Mentoring events and opportunities to replace the current OpenSocial site. Issue for collecting requirements: https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3525926
:three: Upcoming Drupal Camps - https://www.drupal.org/community/events/upcoming-events?title=&field_event_format_value%5B%5D=online&field_event_format_value%5B%5D=in_person&field_event_type_value%5B%5D=drupalcamp&field_event_type_value%5B%5D=contribution
:three: :one: Lead the accessible and fully-scripted First-time Contributor 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.
:three: :two: DrupalCamp Asheville planning.
:three: :three: DrupalCamp Colerado planning.
:four: DrupalCon Nara 2025 - https://www.drupalcontribution.org/nara2025 2025.11.17 - 2025.11.19 planning. The schedule has a contribution day including mentored contribution and first-time contribution.
:four: :one: Who is planning on attending? Volunteer to be a mentoring team lead — https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/find-your-role
- Mentor Contribution Event Planning lead:
- Mentoring room lead:
- Mentor communications leads
- First-time contributor workshop lead:
- Mentoring booth leads:
- Community tools leads:
- Novice issue triage lead:
- Mentor Dinner Lead (ideally someone who knows the area?) - Scheduling, Guest list, Reservations
:four: :two: Mentor and contribution supplies
:five: 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!!!!
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Meeting
Adding some Nara information about committee members
Item to add, not sure where it best fits: Are we doing mentoring tickets for Nara?
Added mentor ticket (Vienna) application details.
Renumbered to move Nara next after Vienna, followed by upcoming camps, and "meta" last.
attended. thanks everyone