Drupal core mentoring coordinators take care of mentoring strategy, mentor recruitment, and mentor-mentoring. They work on contributor tools, documentation, and processes, to make it easier for new contributors to get involved. They organize communications and logistics. You can find the current official list of Drupal core mentoring coordinators in the MAINTAINERS.txt file in the latest Drupal core distribution.

Main responsibilities:

  • Organizing mentoring at DrupalCons
  • Responding to inquiries about mentoring to local organizers
  • Communicating the principles of mentoring
  • Mentoring other mentors
Impact: 

Mentors help new contributors get started. Without contributors, the project simply wouldn't exist, and new contributors will become successful faster if they have good mentors. The mentoring coordinators make sure that mentoring happens.

Accountable for: 

Mentoring strategy, mentor recruitment, and mentor-mentoring:

  • Recruiting mentors
  • Mentoring mentors (for camps, cons, contribution leads, etc.)
  • Recruiting new mentoring coordinators
  • Strategy for integrating mentoring with core priorities, processes, and release management
  • Facilitating/supporting the transition from novice to regular contributor and enabling/empowering/supporting regular contributors
  • Investigate/contact for official mentoring inside companies
  • Thoughtful about messaging in terms of diversity, paid/unpaid, access,
  • Providing advice and strategy for docs, posts, presentations, tools
  • Mentoring meta meeting: schedule, announce, run, take notes
  • Core conversations, camp sessions, etc., about mentoring (this is also communications)
  • Drafting documentation

Contributor tools, documentation, and process facilitation/administration

  • Contributor task document maintenance
  • Core handbook maintenance
  • Testbot administration
  • Slack channel administration

Contributor process, documentation, and tool improvements

  • Process improvements
  • Mentoring-related d.o issues

Communications

Logistics

  • DrupalCon planning and organization (spreadsheet, signups, webpages, DA liaison, booth, drupalcon workshop) https://drupal.org/node/2232047
  • Global Sprint Weekend planning

Active participation as a mentor

  • Regular Slack or other text chat mentoring
  • In-person mentoring at camps and/or cons
  • Core mentoring workshop
  • Global Contribution Day mentoring
  • Triaging novice issues
  • Reviews in issues
How to get started: 

The mentoring Coordinator is a long term commitment so what the current mentoring coordinators are looking for is someone who has demonstrated a long term commitment to contribution mentoring. Look to be present at multiple mentoring events and take an active role in helping them to execute well. You should look to volunteer regularly for contribution mentoring events and help to lead parts of those events (for example, helping with communications at an event etc). Be present at regular mentoring meta meetings in the mentoring Slack channel.

Mentoring Coordinators consider the overall ways in which we perform contribution mentoring - bring new ideas, skills and processes to the team.

Skills required: 
Event planning
Mentoring
Teaching/Training
Technical writing (English)
Tasks this role performs: 
Recruit new Mentoring Coordinator
Triage Novice issues and tasks