Partnerships

To build out content and processes for this guide, previous Community Coordinators have worked closely with other organisations doing similar work/programmes to learn about their best practices and develop them for the JupyterHub community’s benefit. We also often share resources with them. These partnerships are detailed below.

Open Life Science

Open Life Science (OLS) are an organisation providing their own mentorship programme within their own right, but also have a wealth of experience with the Outreachy programme and hosting interns. During the compilation of these guides, we have learned a lot from their expertise and reference their documentation where appropriate. We thank them, and especially Yo Yehudi, for their generous sharing.

Mentor training

One major way that we partner with OLS is providing training for mentors prior to the Outreachy internship period.

This training is organised by OLS and delivered by 360 Training. Scheduling usually happens around the kick-off of an OLS cohort (which usually occur twice a year). Three timeslots are usually provided and participating JupyterHub mentors are welcome to attend any of the timeslots that work best for them. In terms of billing, JupyterHub would pay for one of these sessions from a discretionary fund associated with the Outreachy round. Or JupyterHub may share this expense with a sister organisation of OLS, Open Hardware Makers, who also partner with OLS to train their mentors.

A Community Coordinator can organise this shared training by contacting the OLS team.

I really recommend participating in the mentor training if offered, even if you are an experienced mentor. It’s a great refresher for the required skills and provides a safe space to practice before you have a real intern!

—Sarah Gibson, participated in mentor training both as an OLS mentor and Outreachy mentor