Title: WordCamp New Organizer Mentorship Program Update 1/3/13
Author: Heather Acton
Published: January 6, 2013
Last modified: October 23, 2013

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/heatheracton/) [Heather Acton](https://profiles.wordpress.org/heatheracton/)
10:47 pm _on_ January 6, 2013     
Tags: [organizer mentorship program ( 7 )](https://make.wordpress.org/community/tag/organizer-mentorship-program/)

# WordCamp New Organizer Mentorship Program Update 1/3/13

Our group met for the second time this past week and made some great progress.

We have added several action items to our plan, including putting together some 
resources for new organizers that mentorsEvent Supporter Event Supporter (formerly
Mentor) is someone who has already organised a WordCamp and has time to meet with
their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where they should be in their
timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify solutions for their
issues. can share with them, making some modifications to the organizer application(
to prompt a new organizer to seek out an appropriate mentorEvent Supporter Event
Supporter (formerly Mentor) is someone who has already organised a WordCamp and 
has time to meet with their assigned mentee every 2 weeks, they talk over where 
they should be in their timeline, help them to identify their issues, and also identify
solutions for their issues.), and implementing an outgoing organizer interview, 
to ensure a succession plan is established and the incoming organizer isn’t starting
from scratch.

We’ve posted an Idea Board to our shared doc folder and will continue to post more
ideas like this as our conversations continue. These ideas are helping to form the
outline of the entire program when coupled with what we know of other successful
programs out there.

Our next meeting is this Thursday, January 10, 2013 and we are going to be creating
that outline for our program and divvying our action items and ideas into that outline.

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 2.   Anonymous User  1:46 pm _on_ January 7, 2013
 3.  fantastic! great work heather!
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 5.   [Rachel Baker](http://rachelbaker.me)  3:38 pm _on_ January 9, 2013
 6.  Super progress, Heather!
 7.  Is the time and IRC channel publicly posted somewhere for the meeting today?
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      *  [Heather Acton](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/)  8:20 pm _on_ January
        9, 2013
      * Thanks! I just noticed I need to publish the names of all members of our group,
        as we have a great one…..
      * We are using Google Hangout for the chats and have a Skype conversation for
        in-betweeners. I invited you to the Skype conversation.
      * Just a note – the next meeting is tomorrow at 4pm central, not today. Feel 
        free to join in!
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