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So, after my ini­tial pro­posal to Python-Dev about the core men­tor­ship pro­gram I received a pretty impres­sive out­pour­ing of sup­port and inquiries from peo­ple — both men­tors and “stu­dents” look­ing to join into the pro­gram. Frankly, I’m floored at how pos­i­tive the response has been.

I got the mail­ing list up in short order (go here), and any­one who expressed inter­est to me, or on the python-dev list was directed to it — we have a total of 57 mem­bers right now, and many of the men­tors have sent intro­duc­tions to the list. We’ve also to hashed out the ini­tial code of con­duct, as well as pro­duc­tively answered questions.

Things seem on track — mod­ulo my inabil­ity to carve off time to deploy the small sta­tic about site to pythonmentors.com — on my task list for today. Just to share for your own edi­fi­ca­tion, below is our python-inspired (mean­ing: sim­ple, suc­cinct) code of con­duct for the mail­ing list:

The fol­low­ing code of con­duct is not meant as a means for pun­ish­ment, action or cen­sor­ship for the mail­ing list or project. Instead, it is meant to set the tone and expec­ta­tions and com­fort level for men­tors and those wish­ing to be men­tored on the list.

• We ask every­one to be wel­com­ing, friendly, and patient.
• Flame wars and insults are unac­cept­able in any fash­ion, by any party.
• Any­thing can be asked, and “RTFM” is not an accept­able answer.
• Nei­ther is “it’s in the archives, go read them”.
• List archives are avail­able only to sub­scribers, but sub­scrip­tion is open to everyone.
• Since the archives are “closed” — cross post­ing to pub­lic mail­ing lists is discouraged.
• State­ments made by core devel­op­ers can be quoted out­side of the list.
• State­ments made by oth­ers can not be quoted out­side the list with­out explicit per­mis­sion. [1]
• We endorse the PSF’s Diver­sity state­ment.
• The list admin­is­tra­tors reserve the right to revoke the sub­scrip­tion of mem­bers (includ­ing men­tors) that per­sis­tently fail to abide by this Code of Con­duct. [2]

[1] Anonymised para­phrased state­ments “some­one asked about…” are ok — direct quotes with or with­out names are not appro­pri­ate.
[2] All men­tors are signed up as administrators.

 

The next steps are to get the basic site up (noth­ing fancy) and to get a blog post up on the newly minted python insider blog. Oth­er­wise: I encour­age those look­ing to learn and con­tribute to join in, the water is fine.

So, after my ini­tial pro­posal to Python-Dev about the core men­tor­ship pro­gram I received a pretty impres­sive out­pour­ing of sup­port and inquiries from peo­ple — both men­tors and “stu­dents” look­ing...