[TOS] Research about mentorship in OSS

Igor Steinmacher igorsteinmacher at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 20:27:07 UTC 2019


Hi Joel,

thanks for your answer

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 12:53 PM Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 1:23 PM Igor Steinmacher <igorsteinmacher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> I have a student working on a study aiming to understand how mentors
>> recommend tasks for newcomers to OSS projects.
>> We conducted a set of interviews and uncovered some challenges and
>> strategies that can be used. To follow up, we are collecting some
>> impressions via a survey.
>>
>> Given that we have a great set of instructors involved with OSS in this
>> list, I believe that some of you would answer our survey.
>> Therefore, we kindly ask you, if you have ever mentored someone in OSS
>> context, please answer our survey to help us:
>> https://forms.gle/KKo397WPNJ7Hw1PT8
>>
>
> Isn't this something that most OSS organizations that have participated in
> Google Summer of Code or
> Google Code-In will have experience with?
>

Yes, you are right. Actually, the best are those mentors who receive
newcomers directly in the communities (GSoC and Code-In devs are usually
assigned to pre-selected tasks/proposals)
Anyways, for GSoC mentor, we emailed some of the mentors we had the
contacts, but we do not have any specific channel where we can reach all of
them (without spamming or being intrusive)


> Are you trying to focus on how academics introduce students to OSS
> projects or how the projects themselves on-board newcomers?
>

This is a good comment, thanks.
This is actually not the goal. But, I am pretty sure that many academics
mentored students outside of an actual course. This is the cohort we want
to hear from.

Best
Igor

>
>> Thanks in advance
>> --
>> Igor Steinmacher, PhD
>> Assistant Professor
>> http://www.igor.pro.br
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