Add local mentorship form/portal

[ethanfranks]

Skylar Nichols in the devICT Slack recently asked about local mentorship opportunities. This sparked some conversation about devICT facilitating local mentorship.

@sethetter mentioned:

My rough thoughts on a minimal mentorship-esque program are

• Form allowing people to list themselves as available as a mentor/coacher/helper of some sort

  • Details include topics they are comfortable mentoring on, how they are willing to engage (slack DMs, in person, weekly zooms, etc), and what sort of frequency / time commitment they’re open to

• Website and slack bot makes list of possible mentors available to other devICT members, who can reach out to those individuals on their own

• Published guidelines and expectations for how the mentor/mentee interactions should go to make sure everyone involved is on the same page

• Someone checks in with mentors and mentees on some regular basis to see how it’s going and adjust things as necessary

As I have looked for mentorship opportunities in the past I came across a platform called Coding Coach that does a similar thing; however, after reaching out to several mentors through the platform I never heard back from any of them. Offering something along these lines locally would make it easier to keep an up to date list of mentors. We could potentially use the Coding Coach platform as a reference for ideas and functionality.

[sethetter]

@ethanfranks thanks for starting the discussion here! We can break this down to some distinct tasks.

1. Write the guidelines and code of conduct for mentors and mentees.
2. Decide on the information we'll collect from mentors to display.
3. Create a form on the website that saves the information in deno kv (since we're using deno deploy), and pings the devICT board channel for review and approval.
4. Create a page on the site that displays a list of the approved mentors.

Filing those as individual issues and getting them divvied out seems like a good next step! Any pieces of this that seem most appealing to you?

[ethanfranks]

@sethetter thanks for breaking this down into manageable steps! I'm happy to take the lead or assist with any aspect of this. This is a project I feel very passionate about! If you or any other board members want to be in charge of the code of conduct, in particular, I would completely understand. However, I'm willing to work on that as well with guidance and approval, of course.

[sethetter]

@ethanfranks if you want to take lead on the form and display page, I can take lead on the guidelines?

[ethanfranks]

@sethetter that sounds great, thanks!