Mentorship

Mentors

We're looking to try out a mentorship program through the #code4lib channel on IRC Freenode. The idea is that experienced people who are willing to volunteer some time would provide 1-on-1 mentoring to those who would like to learn during an "Office hours" period, once a week. The idea is sort-of modelled on the Drupal project's Core Office Hours. If this sounds like something you'd like to contribute to, don't hesitate to add your name!

Mentor name	IRC name	Social	Willing to help with	Office hours
Matt McCollow	mdm_	Twitter G+	Javascript	Fridays, 1-2 pm EST
Nick Ruest	ruebot	Twitter G+	Islandora	Fridays, 1-2 pm EST (pls ping in advance)
John Fink	jbfink	t G+	git	Fridays, 1-2pm EST or variable (ping in advance if you can)
Mike Giarlo	mjgiarlo	t G+ fb	Repository technology and architecture, Ruby, Git, Project Hydra, "Persistent identifiers"	Fridays, 1-5 pm EST (pls ping in advance)
Brian Kennison	briankenn	G+	xslt	Fridays, 1-2pm EST (let me know what works for you)
Tim Donohue	tdonohue	Twitter	DSpace, repository technologies/integrations in general, SWORD protocol, digital preservation stuff	Weds, 1-4pm ET in #duraspace channel on IRC Freenode
Kevin Clarke	ksclarke	G+	xml (xslt, xquery, etc.)	Fridays, 1-2 pm EST (ping in advance if you can)

Want to learn?

If you would like to have mentor support on a specific topic, add your name below. There may be members of our community not listed above who would be willing help you.

Name	IRC name	Social	Looking to learn
Matt McCollow	mdm_	Twitter G+	Ruby/Rails
Nick Ruest	ruebot	Twitter G+	Getting better with Solr
John Fink	jbfink	t G+	Ruby/Rails
Max Klein	maxoclc	twitter	Data Munging basics in a language you recommend, interfacing with MySQL in php
Kevin Clarke	ksclarke	G+	node.js (and things I use but would like to learn more about: Git, jQuery, Solr)