Outreach mentor checklist

Overview

This page lists some of the tasks a Kata Containers outreach mentor should undertake.

By participating in a Kata Containers Outreach project you agree to be bound by the "mentors golden rule":

Mentors Golden Rule:

Keep asking the students if they need help, and if they do, help them!

When?	Category	Type	Task	Notes
week 1	team	required	Send contact details of all mentors to students
week 1	team	required	Add GitHub and Slack usernames for all students to the outreach wiki page	GitHub user and Slack usernames only
week 1	team	required	Add all GitHub users to the outreach team
week 1	team	required	Arrange a weekly meeting (Zoom / MS Teams) at a suitable time for all students
week 1	team	required	Talk students through the student checklist	Identify students without required skills
week 1	team	required	Ask each student what they particularly want to get out of the project
week 1	team	recommended	Identify any upcoming public/personal holidays, exam weeks, end of term travel, etc
week 1	team	essential	Work with students and teacher/professors to identify SMART task(s) for each student or group of students
week 2	code	required	Ensure students have installed rust	Any problems?
week 2	code	required	Ensure students have installed Kata and created a Kata container	Any problems?
week 2	code	required	Discuss progress learning rust	Students should have attempted to write some rust code by this stage
final week	team	required	Ask students for feedback on the overall project (good and bad!)	Add it to the ideas page

General agenda:

Any opens/problems/concerns/worries?
Round robin "status update" from each student
- What they've achieved.
- Any problems?
Discuss plan for next meeting.
Offer to present to students on particular topics of interest.

When?	Category	Type	Task	Notes
week 1	read	strongly recommended	Talk through the project overview and onboarding presentation
first few weeks	contribute	strongly recommended	Present on how to run and write new unit tests
any time	code	recommended	async rust presentation	Most of the new code uses asynchronous rust, which requires a different programming paradigm