Reps/Mentors

Mentors, together with the Council members, are the backbone of the Mozilla Reps program. They make sure things run smoothly, they ensure that Reps are supported and have what they need to be impactful in their region. Last but not least, they help plan and pave the way forward to ensure that the program keeps getting better while staying true to the Mozilla mission.

Responsibilities

Being a mentor involves becoming familiar with different tools and processes that the Council has put in place to better streamline the way Mozilla Reps can document their activities, request budgets for projects, order swag and interact with other Reps.

Mozilla Rep mentors play a crucial part in the success of the program. They are responsible for:

• Reviewing applications, budget requests, swag requests assigned to them on Bugzilla
• Interviewing applicants to learn more about them, and telling them more about the program
• Informing applicants whether or not they've been accepted to the program
• Monitoring the progress of their "mentees" and being their key contact person
• Providing feedback to the Council
• Participating in regional meetings online and offline

How to become a mentor

New mentors are nominated during bi-annual council work weeks. During these work weeks, the council first identifies 15 particularly active Mozilla Reps. Then 10 of the 15 Reps are nominated through a process of range voting. The top 10 are then contacted and invited to join the program as a mentor. If they refuse, the next highest nominated mentor is contacted.

Next steps when becoming a mentor

Once a Mozilla Rep has been nominated to be a mentor, (s)he must follow these next steps to be ready to start mentoring.

1) subscribe to reps-mentors@lists.mozilla.org
2) carefully read through the relevant mentor SOPs

    "Mentoring" SOP : https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/SOPs/Mentoring 
    "Swag Review" SOP: https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/SOPs/Swag_Requests
    "Budget Review" SOP:  https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReMo/SOPs/Budget

3) get a "walk through" from Pierros of the Mozilla Reps website and of the new mentoring tools that they will have at their disposal.

List of current mentors (as of March 20, 2012)

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