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Nikolina Shopova edited this page Apr 17, 2019 · 1 revision

Landscape Design - Idea Validation phase I

On behalf of landscape group from Rails Girls CPH meet up, we came up with an idea of creating a google form to test the number of people who will be interested of being a mentor or mentee. Later, we will collect all the questions from mentors and mentee group and then create a questionaire form. Here are the summary from today's meetup.

Are you interested in Mentoring or Finding a mentor?

  1. Mentors
  • Skills - which programming language and which field do you work
  • How long have you been in programming?
  • Frequency - how often can you dedicate your time
  • Offline/Online - A communication platform
  • Availability
  • What do you want to get out of it?
  • What do you want to offer?
  • Would you like to mentor more than one mentee at once?
  1. Mentees
  • In which coding language do you need help
  • What are your expectation?
  • How often do you need help?
  • What kind of resources do are you looking for?
  • Are you completely new or have some experience in programming?

We decided to distribute the questionnaires through some of the platforms below:

  • Lightning talks in meetups
  • Share the questionnaires in
    • Railsgirls Slack
    • Hack Your Future Slack
    • QR Code
    • Stickers

Mentor Group Notes

We discussed from a mentor's point of view what they would want in order to join the platform.

Why does one want to be a mentor?

To contribute to the community. Something a mentor would like to make sure that the mentee is motivated.

Things Mentors could offer/help with and how they plan to offer their help.

  • Helping with job interviews, salary negotiations, motivation/encouragement.
  • Code reviews on Git
  • How do they want to work with coding challenges for example-- reviewing pull requests, and code review
  • Telling how much time they have to offer-- for example as 1 hour / week. And/or for how long of a time period they would like to be a mentor-- for example for the period of 3 months or 6 months...

Somethings mentors might like on the platform:

  • As a mentor, your might also want to invite other mentors.
  • As a mentor you can search for what a mentee is looking for.
  • As a mentor, can a mentee choose you or make a request to choose you?
  • Or does a mentor pick a mentee through the platform.
  • As a mentor, have the ability to set a maximum amount of mentees

A way to help keep a mentor motivated could be through some type of gamification with badges.

We just started to talk about what a Mentor's profile could include
  1. Name
  2. Company
  3. Languages they work with and will help with
  4. Available time.

Mentees Group Notes

We discussed from a mentee's point of view what they would want in order to join the platform.

Why does one want to be a mentee?

Two types of needs:

  1. Code Advice
  2. Career Advice The first type is language-specific and the second sin't necessarily. Suggestion for helping the mentee find the right person: tags for mentors. Tags could include 'code advice', 'JavaScript', 'career advice', helping the mentee find her match.

Taking care of welcoming total beginners

  • Total beginners might not know what language to specialize in, so a way to welcome them could be to have the option of not having to specify that when you first ask to be a mentee.

A Mentee can also be a Mentor

  • Broad consensus in the group that this should be a feature.
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