Plan Mentoring at DrupalCon North America 2021 (April 2021)

12-16 April, 2021 https://events.drupal.org/drupalcon2021

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DATES

as seen on the event site. Deadlines are 23:59 p.m. Central standard time (UTC-6).

https://events.drupal.org/drupalcon2021
https://events.drupal.org/drupalcon2021/news/contribution-drupalcon-evol...

• 3 February 2021 - Conference ticket price
• 3 February 2021 - Scholarship application opens
• 14 February 2021 - Last day to submit your session
• 13 January 2020 - Grant & Scholarship notification
• 3 March 2021 - Session acceptance notification
• 17 March 2021 - Conference and session schedule published
• Done - initiative liaison mentors signed up.
• 22 March - Workshop videos are available to the mentoring group for feedback @Chris Darke
• 29 March - Feedback on workshop videos has been submitted to @Chris Darke
• 12 April - issues triaged for novice and non-novice contributors for all initiative teams
• 12 April - First time contributor workshop videos are uploaded to the mentoring booth
• 1 - 30 April 2021 - DrupalFest

SIGN UP

Mentors, please add yourselves to this year's spreadsheet of awesomeness here. This spreadsheet includes slots to sign up as a mentor for specific initiatives per the radical new DrupalCon format!

LEAD ROLES

General mentoring lead roles

• Mentoring Planning Lead
  • ekl1773
• Core Mentored Contribution Room Lead
• Mentor Communications Lead
  • ekl1773
• Community Tools Lead
• First Time Contributor Workshop Lead
• Mentor Booth Lead
  • ekl1773

Initiative specific lead roles

See events tab on spreadsheet

• Initiative Tuesday: Decoupled Menus Mentored Contribution
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/decoupled_menus_initiative
  • sparklingrobots
• Initiative Wednesday: Easy Out of the Box
  • AmyJune (volkswagenchick
• Initiative Thursday: Auto Update with BugSmash Contribution
  • mradcliffe
• Initiative Friday: Drupal 10 Readiness day
  • ChrisDarke
  • CKEditor 5
    • zrpnr
  • Modernizing JavaScript and reducing jQuery dependencies
    • bnjmnm
  • Starterkit: Drupal 10 theming
    • davidhernandez
    • joelpittet
  • Upgrade path tools: phpstan, Upgrade Status, and drupal-rector
    • shaal
    • mglaman
  • PHP/backend readiness: Backend dependencies (Symfony, Twig, Guzzle, etc.) and core module deprecation API
    • xjm
  • Drupal 9 module upgrades and maintainer drive
    • Kristen Pol

MENTORING EVENTS

• Monday 12 April - First-Time Contributor Workshop: [Lead]
• ??????? - Mentor Orientation: [lead]
• ??????? - Issue triage: [lead]

MENTOR BOOTH

We are thinking of having TWO booth spaces, one for on demand videos and one for on demand mentors ;)
What do we need for virtual booth?

On demand videos for the booth:

• https://youtu.be/tM3CnZvclgg
• https://youtu.be/x32hXZ_Weu0
• https://youtu.be/NIWCXE-aM6Y
• https://youtu.be/W5Pc4Yj6ie8

Links for the booth:

• Tools for Contributors: https://www.drupal.org/tools
• How to contribute: https://events.drupal.org/drupalcon2021/contribution
• Drupal Slack for Contributors: https://bit.ly/DrupalContributionSlack
• First Time Contributor workshop:
• Drupal Slack for mentors: #mentoring https://bit.ly/DrupalMentorSlack
• How to Mentor: https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring/mentor-instructions
• Triage tasks: https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/task/triage-novice-is...

RESOURCES/REFERENCES:

• DrupalCon Global2021 #3094166: Plan mentoring at DrupalCon Global (July 2020)
• DrupalCon Europe2021 #3105225: Plan mentoring at DrupalCon EU (December 2020)
• DrupalCon Amsterdam issue for reference #3055976: Plan mentoring at DrupalCon Amsterdam (Oct 2019) and DrupalCon Seattle #3002716: DrupalCon Seattle Mentor Planning