The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks an individual – or individuals part (or full) time – to be
a Development Mentor
to start work as soon as possible. The role requires the following:
- Self-starting, remote working experience
- Experience contributing to FLOSS communities
- Excellent communication skills, with enthusiasm for mentoring
- Coding experience (LibreOffice coding preferred)
- Willingness to travel to Hackfests & conferences in Europe and globally
The role involves working from home at your location for at least 20 hours per week, up to full-time and includes among other items:
Supporting existing mentors in the LibreOffice community including:
- Building relationships between existing mentors and new contributors
- Identifying and on-boarding new contributors
- Affirming and encouraging their contribution
- Building initial relationships with them
- Encouraging them to join IRC to meet the teams
- Introducing them to domain experts for deeper learning
- Helping to educate new contributors by
- Positively reviewing their code contributions
- Introducing them to our tooling and culture
- Attracting new contributors by promoting the project
- Interaction with UX volunteers
Previous experience with such tasks is highly welcome, so is using free software.…
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