Mentoring Committee

Role description
Mentoring Committee provides guidance to newcomers to the Local Groups community.

Members

 * Julia Kloiber, Germany
 * Everton Alvarenga, Brazil
 * Pierre Chrzanowski, France
 * Anastasios Ventouris, Greece

(Last update: 18/10/2013)

How to contact with mentors
You can contact with all mentors at the same time using the official mailing list council-mentoring@lists.okfn.org.

Regular meetings
An one hour meeting every two months, the first Wednesday of the month via IRC, discussing with ambassadors and local groups.

Agenda

 * Introductions (everyone)
 * News from the global community (by the Local Groups Manager)
 * What is the status of open knowledge in your nation? (new Ambassadors)
 * Questions and discussion

Advice

 * Keep an eye out for collaborators - but do so casually, not force expansion and tighter structure. Connect in a human way.
 * Use OKF as an umbrella, as a common denominator - but not necessarily the only topic to connect over. Be broadly open to all kinds of open topics.
 * Be bold sometimes - simply ask people in your network to join and help concretely. A good way to get people to take an active role (and a good way for you to get help).
 * Challenging to start a virtual organization by having to discuss everything in detail all together. Instead it’s good to break down into projects and let smaller groups work on that.
 * Get connected with neighbour OKFN network, this can be the better way for inter community collaboration and support.
 * Discover new ideas on working groups (!!!!!Create a wiki page with all the working groups and a short description!!!!!)