Add Section Heading “I want to help or mentor others contribute to the Drupal Project”

Updating to current standard template first; then I'm going to write a first draft...

First draft for this section, thoughts?

Typo

Only "the drupal project" as in Drupal core? or does this also cover contrib :)

Should be the entire Drupal project, which includes Core and Contrib.

I think someone who wants to mentor others should feel free to mentor for core or contrib. But it is definitely true that our established mentoring program focuses on Core currently.

Is this discussion, however, something that will have an impact on the text in this section, or are we just chatting about the merits of the current mentoring program (which is out of scope for this issue)?

Finally coming back to this issue.

<p>The following groups are actively engaged in this area:</p>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://groups.drupal.org/mentoring">Mentoring group on groups.drupal.org</a></li>

The first bullet point here is a link-only. I think we should expand this to a sentence. The intent for this bullet point is to guide people who want to contribute and help mentor each other in discussing how we mentor, I think?

So maybe

> Collaboration on how to improve as a mentor happens as part of the Mentoring group on groups.drupal.org, the Mentoring project on drupal.org.

  <li>On-line mentoring often happens in instant messaging tools, such as <a href="/slack">Slack</a> (sign up, then join channel(s) <em><a href="https://drupal.slack.com/app_redirect?channel=contribute">#contribute</a></em> or <em><a href="https://drupal.slack.com/app_redirect?channel=documentation">#documentation</a></em>) and <a href="/drupalchat">DrupalChat.me</a> (sign up, then join channel(s) <em><a href="https://drupalchat.me/channel/general">#general</a></em>).</li>

We also mentor each other in #mentoring. That might be more appropriate in a revised first bullet, but then this one might look weird to mention On-line mentoring in Slack/DrupalChat twice?

A fourth bullet point may point to mentoring via other channels that we may not consider as "mentoring" such as the Community Forums, Drupal Answers, Google+ group, drupal.org contrib projects (such as D&I contrib. team). Or maybe there's a better way to stress the importance of organic mentoring and not really something to explicitly list?

Great points! The only one I'm unsure of is the proposed 4th bullet point... This is about mentoring folks who want to contribute, and I think we should stress established mentoring channels for contributors. I see the Forums and Drupal Answers as more of a place that people wanting to provide support to other Drupal users would go, rather than people who want to mentor contributors (and I think we have a separate section for that)?

I'm not sure about contrib projects, but that would certainly be a good thing to mention. Are there some projects out there that have established mentoring channels? If so, let's specifically mention those. Or they can be added later, if they develop or identify themselves.

Meanwhile, how about this revision of the first two bullet points?

Right, but this issue is about people who want to mentor others, so it should talk about #mentoring?

I think the draft in the issue summary is good, but there's now a /community page for core mentoring that's a bit more up to date than the groups.d.o page, if a bit less general. https://www.drupal.org/community/mentoring

Could we replace the groups link with a link to that? So maybe:

Collaboration on how to improve as a mentor happens as part of the Core Mentoring group https://www.drupal.org/community/mentoring

Agreed with jhodgdon that this is about becoming a mentor, and pointing to people for the resources to learn about that role. Those resources will say things about "mentoring should happen in #contribute, at events, and organically between contributors" or something like that. Just need to get folks started!

This would be nice to have set up, thank you jhodgdon!

Updated the issue summary as mentioned above.
Just a small change there, that should do the trick to help folks find their way. Thanks @rachel_norfolk

Changes look great, but just noticed this sentence (not changed):

-- many of them have work days

This sounds a bit vague to me, what's a work day? Is it a day you go to work and can contribute? In that case it's irrelevant to Drupal events. Or does it mean like a contribution day/sprint day?

Maybe we can just shorten that to "contribution events" generally. Updated.

Yeah good one :) looks ok to me.