[Inpycon] Mentoring Speakers

[Anand B Pillai]

On Monday 30 April 2018 11:08 AM, Anand Chitipothu wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> At the CFP workgroup, we've been discussing how to raise the quality of
> talks while encouraging new speakers. Looking around we found that our
> friends at PyCon AU[1] and PyOhio[2] have been providing mentorship
> support speakers in proposing, preparing, or presenting the talk.
> 
> A mentor will be an experienced speaker who is interested to help other
> speakers.
> 
> If you see, it is really a nice thing. It encourages the first-time
> speakers to come forward as they have someone to guide them, increases
> diversity (assuming we find diverse mentors) and improves the overall
> talk quality. In addition to all this, it creates stronger bonds between
> people in the community.
> 
This is an amazing idea and I am putting forth my support for it.
I'd be happy to register as a speaker mentor for PyCon India.

> The plan is that the CFP team will come up with an initial list of
> mentors and asks the group for more suggestions.
> 
> We are still debating about how will the potential speakers pick
> mentors. We have been discussing about three possible options. We will
> have pick one or more of those options.
> 
> 1. Publish a list of mentors and let potential speakers contacts them
> directly

Broadcast Model. Chaos.
> 2. Have a google form and we moderate it

Centralised control. Too limiting.

> 3. Have a public IRC/Slack channel to comminucate

Peer to peer. May not be very efficient.
> 
> Do you think it is a good idea? Any comments or suggestions?

4. Get a list of mentors and once talks are approved - ask mentors to
express interest in talks/speakers they want to mentor by entering
comments on the CFP. Do this by setting up a mini ML of mentors and
emailing them during final stages of CFP.



> 
> [1]: http://2018.pycon-au.org/speak/#mentors
> [2]: https://www.pyohio.org/2018/program/call-for-proposals
> 
> Anand
> 
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