S06E6 Modern Web Podcast - A Look into Node's Mentor Program with Ahmad Bamieh, Benjamin Coe, Jennifer Bland, Princiya Sequeira, and Tracy Lee

In this episode, we speak to Node mentors and mentees about the Node mentor program, an ongoing program focused on helping get more contributors into the Node ecosystem.

 

Our Guests:

Ahmad Bamieh (@ahmadbamieh), Software Engineer at Elastic who leads the mentor program

Benjamin Coe (@benjamincoe), Developer Programs Engineer Google and Node Collaborator

Jennifer Bland (@ratracegrad), SSR at Stanley Black & Decker

Princiya Sequeira (@princi_ya), Lead front end engineer at smartHelios

 

Topics covered:

- What is the mentor initiative?

- What have been the experiences you went through as a mentor and mentee?

- How do you get involved in mentor program?

- What are the metrics of success that you track for this?

- What advice do you have for mentees to get the most out of a mentorship?

- What can mentors do to facilitate a great mentor program?

 

This episode is sponsored by NativeScript & This Dot Labs.

 

LINKS:

https://princiya777.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/node-js-diagnostics/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjJlQgygxY7e_7FMBvkUFkUwIPC5vg5OL

https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/how-i-got-into-node-jennifer-bland-3060d02654b3

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/contributing-to-open-source-is-not-hard-here-is-my-journey-to-contributing-to-nodejs-d10760e31194

https://princiya777.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/node-js-mentorship/

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