[Inpycon] Mentoring Speakers

[Siddharth Prajosh]

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On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, 18:58 Haris Ibrahim K. V., <blucalvin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 April 2018 at 11:08, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> 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.
>
> +2. The challenge, I guess, would be to find enough speak mentors who
> has enough spare time to contribute.
>
> > 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
> > 2. Have a google form and we moderate it
> > 3. Have a public IRC/Slack channel to comminucate
>
> Standing in the shoes of a first time speaker, I vote for this 3rd
> option. Any one on the slack / IRC channel could initiate the
> conversation if someone new joins and probably ping other speak
> mentors maybe depending on their area of expertise or something.
>
> > Do you think it is a good idea? Any comments or suggestions?
>
> Lovely idea. :)
>
> However, wasn't there discussions regarding not making PyCon India a
> venue for first time speakers? I was, and still am against that
> opinion and I personally feel that first time speakers should be
> encouraged to present at PyCon India, but maybe those thoughts need to
> filter into this discussion as well.
>

I'd like to add to this from a first time speaker's perspective.
I'm a first time speaker and wanted to propose a talk.

I think it's better for the event to "miss a good talk than take a risk
with first timers"

But it's just my opinion.


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