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| 1 | +# Internship Mentoring Lead Handbook |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +## Overview |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +The Mentoring Lead role is created to help upstream Kubernetes contributors to participates in various mentorship programs like [GSoC](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/google-summer-of-code.md), [GSoD](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/google-season-of-docs.md), [LFX Mentorship](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/mentoring/programs/lfx-mentorship.md) and many more as an independent organisation or under Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF). |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +## Responsibilities |
| 8 | + The role lead should: |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +- Keep a calendar of dates for each program (when to submit our project name, when to submit the project scope, when selecting period is, etc) throughout the year and |
| 11 | +- Coordinate all submissions and participation in each one |
| 12 | +- Go to sig meetings and slack channels to proactively help with scoping and planning work / job descriptions |
| 13 | +- Help onboard interns to the k8s specific community items like coordinate a hello for them at the k8s monthly community meeting |
| 14 | +- Help off board interns to the k8s specific community items like demo at monthly community meeting |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +### Role Description |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +Major responsibilities includes a commitment to: |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +- Be proactive in information sharing, through the mailing list/slack channels, regarding various mentorship cohorts |
| 22 | +- Be a bridge between the CNCF staff, mentors, and mentees from kubernetes project |
| 23 | +- Be an active contributor, who could identify parts of the project that could get help from mentorship programs |
| 24 | +- Be a go-to person for all SIGs to help them with their mentorship proposals |
| 25 | +- Be welcoming of everyone by being your unique self |
| 26 | +- Be inclusive on contributors, especially with new contributors joining kubernetes project as part of the mentoring process |
| 27 | +- Be a leader of the mentoring sub-project with a commitment to its charter |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +### Minimum Skills and Requirements |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +Skills: |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +- Be comfortable with general GitHub workflows. You'll be working inside of multiple repositories with different workflows and helping others on the team with troubleshooting. |
| 34 | +- Be a team player, making the project welcoming for new mentees and helping other members of the project interested to part in mentorship with the process. |
| 35 | +- Be willing and capable of saying "no" as necessary, but try to get to a "yes, and" to help the community achieve its goals. In short, be empathetic. |
| 36 | +- Strong written and verbal communication skills. A willingness to meet (a lot) of new people is important for this work. |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +Requirements: |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +- Member of the [Kubernetes GitHub Org] |
| 41 | +- [Reviewer] in the mentoring folder |
| 42 | +- Not Necessary, but a previous mentee/mentor in any of the mentorship programme is preferrable |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +#### Expected Time Investment |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +- Four hours a week as a minimal target, might be two hours more during the proposal submission perios |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +#### Duration |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +Ideally, no lead should be in the same position indefinitely. With that in mind,the project would like to see new leadership every 24 months to keep a fresh perspective. |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +### Becoming a Shadow |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +Any regular contributor to mentoring subproject can put forward their interest to the mentoring lead to become a shadow. If accepted, the objective of the council members is to nurture that shadow into a leadership position in the next 12 months. |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +#### Expectations of a Shadow |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +Consistently communicate and collaborate closely with the lead. The objective is to get you, as the shadown, to be a confident leader of the above responsibilities. Be ready to backfill for them when they are unable to attend a meeting or represent the subproject. |
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