Mentors Requirements

Requirements to Become a WP Credits Mentor

To join the WP Credits mentor group, candidates should:

• Have a wordpress.org account that shows both their wordpress.org and slackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. names (if not, it means they are not in slack with that wordpress.org account).
• Demonstrate alignment with the WordPress Foundation mission and values, including openness, collaboration, and respect.
• Show a positive and supportive attitude, being a good communicator and de-escalator in challenging situations.
• Be committed to student success, willing to dedicate at least 2 hours per week for mentoring and guidance.
• Have basic familiarity with the WordPress project, its community spaces, and contribution practices (long-term experience is not required, we will provide additional training according to each case).
• Demonstrate that they comply with the GPLGPL GPL is an acronym for GNU Public License. It is the standard license WordPress uses for Open Source licensing https://wordpress.org/about/license/. The GPL is a ‘copyleft’ license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html. This means that derivative work can only be distributed under the same license terms. This is in distinction to permissive free software licenses, of which the BSD license and the MIT License are widely used examples. and do not violate, endorse, or work for companies that violate the WordPress trademark, misuse the WordPress name or logo, or distribute non-GPL-compliant derivatives of WordPress..
• Be able to communicate clearly in English and any local additional language.
• Be available for weekly synchronous or asynchronous check-ins with students and program maintainers.

Requirements to Receive the WP Credits Mentor Badge

To be awarded the WP Credits Mentor badge, a mentor must have:

• Actively mentoring at least one student in the WP Credits program.
• Consistently contributed to the program’s administration, such as maintaining documentation or supporting GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged by the repository owner. https://github.com/ issues for a minimum of three consecutive months.