Mentor Meeting - 10 September 2025

Mentor Meeting - 10 September 2025

This meeting is on 10 September 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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:drupal-mentoring: :drupal-mentoring: :drupal-mentoring:
Hello everyone. Welcome to the Drupal Core Mentoring Meta Meeting! :calendar: This meeting:
➤ Usually happens on the [second Wednesday of the month](https://project.pages.drupalcode.org/mentoring/files/mentoring-team.ics), 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 PLACEHOLDER_URL 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, add a joke, pun or other word play about Autumn or Spring.

:one: [DrupalCon Vienna 2025](https://www.drupalcontribution.org/vienna2025) — 2025-10-14 – 2025-10-17

:one: :one: Who is planning on attending? (VIENNA)
[Volunteer to be a mentoring team lead](https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/find-your-role)
• Mentor Contribution Event Planning lead:  chrisdarke 
• Mentoring room lead: 
• Mentor communications leads: igorgoncalves volunteered so far
• First-time contributor workshop lead: lostcarpark and rachel_norfolk
• Mentoring booth leads: dinarcon
• Community tools leads: lostcarpark (enlisting help from Darren form DrupalForge)
• Novice issue triage lead: rodrigoaguilera, (Drupal AI triage led by Kristen Pol)
• Mentor Dinner Lead (ideally someone who knows the area?) - Scheduling, Guest list, Reservations

:one: :two: Contribution Tools (VIENNA) — Proposal: If we are not confident by **2025.09.18** in a solution that we can document and create videos on we will focus on non-code issue management such as Needs Review Queue Initiative, Major Issue triage to mentor new contributors *who do not have an environment* in the issue process. We have a new channel to talk about any solution in #contribution-tool-planning that is agnostic to DrupalPod, DrupalForge, ddev, dev-containers, etc... DrupalForge needs review! Please help and provide feedback!

:one: :three: Europe Mentor Box — New mentor banner hopefully in progress.

:one: :four: Mentor tickets (VIENNA) — Invitations sent.

:one: :five: @john-cook has been doing amazing work adding mentoring features in the updated volunteer app for Vienna 2025. There is a mock with feedback from mentors. Any updates, @John-cook? Ready to download?

:two: [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. 

:two: :one: Who is planning on attending? (NARA)
[Volunteer to be a mentoring team lead](https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/find-your-role).
Contribution committee members: @anto, @pooja_sharma, @Jimmy Cann, @mradcliffe (this is an asynchronous slack meeting regarding mentoring events, but some general contribution planning happens here too) CC: @richo

• Mentor Contribution Event Planning lead: mradcliffe
• 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

:two: :two: Mentor and contribution supplies including printed signs, stationary supplies, power strip needs (NARA).

:two: :three: [Important dates (NARA)](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pGnwtILTbl2spj4uTeDU3Da9Cd1YsTkkqeuB5pnbvkk/edit?gid=2139723987#gid=2139723987)

:two: :four: Mentor tickets? (NARA) — There are two mentor tickets available, https://forms.gle/oQ9KppFKizMtneoJ9

: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: [PNW Drupal Summit](https://www.drupal.org/community/events/pacific-northwest-drupal-summit-2025-2025-10-18) learn how to participate in #pnw-drupal-summit with @heatherwoz — 2025-10-18 to 2025-10-19

:four: Mentor Meta 

:four: :one: [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). You can keep an eye on our progress via issues posted in the mentoring project queue... We have a working document for bylaws and are seeking examples from other working groups and initiatives that have bylaws. There has been some burn out among working group members.

:four: :two: [Mentor Documentation Audit](https://www.drupal.org/project/mentoring/issues/3522247)
Do you know mentor documentation? Do you want to know mentor documentation? Everyone can help audit documentation across YouTube, drupalcontribution.org, drupal.org guides, drupal.org community page, drupal.org gitlab documentation, drupal.org books, other sites.

:four: :three: 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).

:four: :four: 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).

:five: Open floor/other topics. Please start a new thread.

:five: :one: Another Slack meeting I attend allows you to add your Slack username to a list that gets pinged a few minutes before the meeting starts. It makes it harder to forget about. Would there be interest in setting up a similar list for this meeting? So far not much interest.

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!!!!