Subject: Mentors Needed for Speed Mentoring on Sunday

From: Alexa Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:11:18 -0500

Hi Everyone,

We are looking forward to seeing you in Chicago very soon!

We need a few more mentors to support the Sunday Speed Mentoring session, and we thought that the WG chairs would be excellent candidates to spend a few minutes chatting one-on-one with some of the new participants in a quieter and more structured format than the Meet and Greet. 

Speed Mentoring is an effective way for newcomers to meet a number of more experienced IETF attendees in a short (one hour) period of time. As a mentor, it's a quick and effective way to be of help to a variety of IETF newcomers, some of whom will be core contributors in the coming months and years. You will spend five-to-ten minutes with each match before moving on to another person. While this is not a lot of time, it is enough to cover the basics (e.g. areas of interest, essential questions) and then of course you are encouraged to continue the conversation throughout the meeting week. We anticipate that you will speak with fifteen different people in this one-hour session.

Date: Sunday, March 26, 2017
Time: 13:45-14:45 
Location: Lucerne Ballroom

This is just a one hour commitment immediately after the Newcomers’ Orientation. We are targeting participation at 30 participants and 30 mentors. If you are available from 13:45-14:45 on Sunday to help that would be great. No prior experience with the IETF Mentoring program is needed.

Please sign up at:

https://www.ietf.org/registration/ietf98/rsvp.py?eventid=3&eventcode=3493458

Thank you for all your help!

-Alexa

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Alexa Morris / Executive Director / IETF
+1.510.492.4001
Email: [email-masked]