Mentor the next wave of devs
What volunteer events are available?
All events are remote and last an hour over zoom or asynchrously. Choose to mentor individually or with your ERG.
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Hacking Together
Get on a mob zoom and help fellows navigate tasks and debugging for full-stack functions or architecture. Engineers, Architects, and Security folks encouraged.
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Career Advice
Help fellows build their brand. Look over blogs, LinkedIns, resumes, or mock interviews. Talent Aquisition, DevRel, and Marketing folks encouraged.
Pick an event to mentor
Advise ⚙️ technical or career development 🎤 skills
⚙️Documentation with AI | October 23rd, 12-1 pm pt
Technical Mentor
Walk through prompt engineering such as to create better wikis, inline comments, and readMes for better collaboration
⚙️Unit Tests for APIs | October 30th 12-1 pm pt
Technical Mentor
Create tests for common error codes for Integrations: Twilio, Auth0, and Stripe. Have unit tests for edge cases in functions.
⚙️Building automations with GitHub Actions| Nov 6th 12-1 pm pt
Technical Mentor
Debug existing YAML files for the repo's current workflows or come up with your own for GitOps and community collaboration.
🎤 Resume Review |November 12th 4 pm pt
Career Mentor
Give feedback on how a fellow could use STAR method in their resume. You'll have a guiding checklist as you leave comments on the document.
⚙️ HashiCorp SecretVault| Nov 13th 12-1 pm pt
Interviewer + Interviewee will receive a unique Google Meet invitation
🎤 Give feedback on blogs | Async Dec 1-Dec 12th
Career Mentor
You'll be matched with a fellow to read their blog and leave 2-3 comments on the content. Look for solution details and context setting in their voice.
⚙️ Deploying to AWS with ECR and ECS | Dec 12th 12-1 pm pt
Technical Mentor
Pair program with students to help them learn the basics of using GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines to AWS ECR and use ECS to do container scanning.
Why mentor?
One hour can help someone break into the tech industry.
Open source mentors provide student fellows first hand open source experience through working on ProgramEarth’s projects via pair hours, career-related and technical workshops, and content labs.
Do you want to foster tech for good and build a community?
We are looking for mentors with at least 3-4 years of industry experience. Potential mentors must attend an onboarding orientation session before beginning mentorship activities.
Earn Credly badges for volunteering your time.
We are looking for mentors with at least 3-4 years of industry experience. Potential mentors must attend an onboarding orientation session before beginning mentorship activities.
Mentors joined since 2021
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ERGs: Engage your members with volunteer events
Support open source software by sponsoring one of our events as a co-partner. We work with your team to plan logistics, comms and send out follow-up impact reports.
How does this help your members?
- Members get donation credits by volunteering
- Chance to meet people cross department and industry
- Leadership and upskilling oppotunities
- No manual or admin work for the ERG
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