Mentorship

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Revision as of 20:14, 4 June 2012 by Ksclarke (Talk | contribs) (Want to learn?)

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.), java Fridays, 1-2pm 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)