jasonrhodes / mentors

Building up the node community through mentoring

Node Mentoring Program

Building up the node community through mentoring

Why would I want a mentor?

Are you just learning node, or looking to get started? Have you been struggling with something node-related for a while and not sure where to go next? Mentors can help!

Mentors can be awesome encouragement when learning gets rough. We're knowledgable, nice, and we want to help you steer through the uncharted waters of code and community.

How is this different than Stack Overflow?

The idea is to provide more personal, specific support and hopefully develop healthy mentoring relationships rather than just a quick question/answer exchange. We're figuring it out as we go so tell us what's working and what's not by filing an issue on this repo!

OK so what do I do?

Three options:

1. File an issue here on the GitHub issue queue and explain a problem you're having, some questions you have, etc. Make sure you note things like the language you speak, your location, or anything else you think matters to the mentor who will ultimately respond and begin to work with you.

2. Ask a question on our Gitter channel --a chat room that uses your GitHub login as your user account. We'll be watching that channel and responding there, hoping to pair up as we find good matches.

3. <less public method tbd> coming soon...

Want to help mentor some people?

Submit a pull request to this repo adding your name and info to the list below, and make sure you watch this repo and the gitter channel for questions!

Current Mentor List

• Mathias Buus @mafintosh - in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ping me if you are in the area or just wanna talk node.
• George Shank - Based out of Salt Lake City, UT. Happy to help with any questions, big or small.
• Trent Oswald @therebelrobot, Based in Orem/Provo UT, Co-organizer of Utah Node Ninjas. I normally assist with Node basics and application structuring. Shoot me a message/tweet/carrier pidgeon, I'm happy to assist!
• Jason Rhodes - in Baltimore, MD. Also happy to help with questions, especially medium-sized ones.
• Matt Hernandez - in Cincinnati, OH. Ask me about designing and building Node.js apps and modules.
• Charlie Robbins - based out of New York City. Send me all your questions in gists!
• Benjamin Lupton @balupton - mentoring in Sydney for vegan food and shelter
• Mudit Ameta @muditameta - Happy to help. If help is required in person in Bangalore, India, that can be arranged too. Just tweet at me to get things started. Happy hacking!
• Stephen Belanger @stephenbelanger qard on freenode - Vancouver, BC. I write instrumentation code, so I know lots about internals of things.
• Bryan English @bengl - in SF Bay Area, CA. I currently focus on enterprise node things, but happy to help with anything.
• David Trejo dtrejo.com @ddtrejo - ask me about consulting & node & js & prototyping! Based in SF Bay Area, CA.
• Ross Kukulinski @RossKukulinski - Online or in-person mentoring and help with Node/DevOps. I <3 coffee and beer. Based in Menlo Park, CA, USA.
• Henry Allen-Tilford @generalhenry - Based in Redwood City, CA, USA
• Todd Kennedy @whale_eat_squid, toddself on freenode. Happy to try to help with anything!
• Darren DeRidder @ottawa_js - organizer of Ottawa JavaScript meetup, based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• Yoshua Wuyts @yoshuawuyts - based in Amsterdam. Happy to help with anything!
• Matteo Collina @matteocollina - based in Italy and helping out italian-speaking node newbies.
• Gabriele Di Stefano - based in Amsterdam, mentoring for beers ;-) and nice people.
• Nikos Gereoudakis @ni_ger - based in Athens, Greece. Happy to help online or offline.
• Hugh Kennedy @hughskennedy - based in Amsterdam. Primarily frontend these days and happy to help out with npm, browserify and node-powered frontend tooling.
• Julian Gruber @juliangruber - based in southern Germany, happy to help with anything javascript, node, npm, browserify and leveldb.
• Yiyu He @deadhorse_busi - based in Hangzhou, China. Happy to help with anything online or offline.gi
• Jonathan Ong @jongleberry - based in West LA, CA. Happy to talk about anything web-dev related!
• Adam Brady @adam__brady - Based in Melbourne, Aus. Happy to help with anything, specialise in security.
• Hemanth HM @gnumanth - Based in Bangalore, I'm happy to help.
• Suroor Wijdan @wotthetech - Based in New Delhi, India. Happy to discuss and help with anything.
• Alejandro Oviedo @a0viedo - Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Send me all your questions!
• Kushal Likhi @KushalLikhi - Based in New Delhi, India. Feel free to ping or cantact anytime if you need any help. If in Delhi/NCR we can meet over drinks and discuss too. Co-Organizer of NodeSchool-Delhi/NCR, come be a part and let the knowledge flow.
• Richard Key @busyrich - in Tucson, AZ. I can "mentor" anything Node or JavaScript.
• Gergely Nemeth @gergelyke - in Budapest, Hungary. Ping me if you are in the area or just wanna talk node.
• Phillip Johnsen @phillipjohnsen - in Oslo, Norway. Happy to help anyone getting started with node.
• Maurice Butler @butlermaurice - Based in Brisbane, Australia. Happy to help out with anything Node or JavaScript in general.
• Hengki Sihombing @hengkiado - Base in Jakarta, Indonesia. Oganizer of JakartaJS meetup. I'm happy to help anything about Node or JavaScript.
• Xiuyu Li @nickleefly - Based in Shanghai, China. Happy to help anything web