Discord Pairbot

How it works

There will be two types of mentorships:

• Hard Skills
• Soft Skills

The hard skills mentorship will be focused on building projects and getting members familiar with technologies they were not. This is intended for more Junior members.

The soft skills mentorship will be focused on building careers and getting jobs. It will be for more experienced DAO members to network and receive career advice, and likewise for less experienced members to

Hard Skills Program

• Becoming a mentor

  • Basic skill test/ talk with project champions/ leads to assign the applicant to an appropriate group (eg. a Mentor with Intermediate JS skills can oversee groups looking to learn the basics of JS)
  • Introduction round where mentors give a short word about themselves so students can approach mentors with who they align with
  • Provide options of pairing mentors/ mentees based on native languages so they can communicate better with students whose first language is not English
  • How many groups can a mentor look after at one time?

• Becoming a mentee

  • Signup with the pairing bot
  • Be assigned to a relevant study group based on skills or goals
  • Read Docs for how to find pairing buddies and mentors (using tools such as the pairbot)
  • Read Docs for learning study

• Establishing a mentorship relationship

  • Have mixer sessions for mentors and mentees to get comfortable with each other
  • Guiding mentors to find the right pace for a particular group
  • Provide mentors with tools to make sessions interesting (and maybe interactive) to help maintain interest in mentees
  • Assist mentors in creating an atmosphere where mentees can take a leap diving into difficult topics/ projects knowing that the mentor has their back and that they can leverage the knowledge of this entire community to solve their doubts Drive execution of processes so mentorship actually happens

• Recruiting

  • Recruit mentors. Possible compensations for mentors are cryptocurrencies and/ or a group of mentees to work with them on their project ideas. This way mentees get experience as well
  • Mentors seek to recruit mentees to their group by speaking about themselves and the project ideas they are working on and can give mentees experience in those projects. This could be a first come first serve assignment for mentees followed by auto-assignment to students who have not approached/ applied to learn from specific mentees

• Mentorship pair check-ins

• Gathering feedback to improve the process

• Mentor working on DAO Projects

  • Work with Mentee to make their first contribution
    • Do mentors have to work only on projects that benefit the DAO?
    • Mentors could give roles to work on in their projects that are relevant to the difficulty level mentees are on. For example, a beginner JavaScript group can be assigned to make the basic framework for a website using. The mentor can assist when mentees get stuck.
    • The mentors can further add mentees as contributors on GitHub/ other official project docs so that mentees get something to show.
    • This project could serve as a graduation project as Proof of Competence so that the mentees can move to the next level.
    • To be fair we can ask mentors and other mentees to verify the work mentees have done in the project. We can arrange for a session attended by a moderator where the mentee presents the work he has done on the project.
    • By the end of the learning experience/ roadmap, mentees will have multiple such projects to show and will be able to work as junior devs/ interns at one of D_D’s partners or externally

  Soft Skills Program

• You have signup for mentors and mentees. Mentors get paid in CODE, mentees get paid in advice from their mentors.