mentor

Note

This role is only for students who have previously participated in Wordplaypen, or have sufficient knowledge of the project to help guide newcomers.

So you want to help mentor in the community? That's great! There's a lot of need for guidance.

Mentorship, unlike the other roles in the community, has a broad scope, with many different distinct activities involved. What binds them together are the goal of helping others get their work done. It is crucial that you teach responsibility for each of this seriously; others depend on you to model our code of conduct fully in order for the rest of the community to work.

Here are your responsibilities:

Support

Every contributor depends on you to ensure their success.

• Supervise and support up to five contributors. This means being available to help them, provide them guidance, connect them with others in the community, encourage them, and give them feedback on their work. Your goal here is to ensure others can achieve their goals. You're a resource to help them work better.

• Answer questions on Discord when you have the answers.

• Ensure cross-team collaboration. Designers should be consulting with developers on feasibility; help them find developers to work with. Developers should be partnering with designers, verifiers, and localizers to ensure that their implementation reflects the goals of the design; ensure they're working together.

• Organize tutorials. When you identify a need for learning, find an expert who can teach on a topic (including maybe you) and organize a learning event (at the meetup, or another time).

Improve

We depend on you to identify improvements to the project, since you're closest to seeing what's working and what's not.

• Identify process improvements. Throughout your time, proactively gather feedback from contributors about what's working and what's not. Report changes to our process as a GitHub issue to improve communication, collaboration, learning, and productivity.