On 06/05/15 16:11, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com> wrote: >> Well, since this is my first time doing this, I simply have no idea what I'm >> supposed to do, and could use considerable hand-holding here. I suspect that >> I'm not the only one in this boat, so I'll take the fall for everyone. > > I attempted to provide a personal experience in my response to Corey. > And while it doesn't provide the "official" guidance > (<https://flossmanuals.net/gsocmentoring/> is that), I wanted to > reassure mentors that this is not "a new thing". For a moment, > consider this as bringing on-board a new contributor. > > +1 the most important when mentoring students is to have regular 1:1 (unless they're already seasoned contributors) to ensure that they're progressing and make sure they are well-behaved community contributors. H.