Template:Recommended Steps to Participate for Outreach Programs Mentors

During the program

 * 1) Set development & communication plans with your mentee.
 * 2) Encourage them to participate in the community bonding period following our guidelines.
 * 3) Set aside time in your schedule for a weekly meeting with your mentee via video call.
 * 4) Aim to get a Minimum viable product (MVP) out the door. Fine-tune plans as needed.
 * 5) Host new projects created during the program under the Wikimedia umbrella on code repositories like GitHub and Gerrit.
 * 6) Stay in close communication with your mentee.
 * 7) Require your mentee to submit new code for review often, ideally every alternate day.
 * 8) Require your mentee to submit weekly reports.
 * 9) Submit timely project evaluations to organization administrators.
 * 10) Before the program ends, make sure to document any open tasks, file known bugs or merge leftover code.

After the program

 * 1) Share your conclusions of the project in communication channels, wherever appropriate.
 * 2) Suggest or help with any improvements of our outreach program guides.
 * 3) Communicate to organization administrators any lessons learned.
 * 4) Recommend next steps to your mentee in the current project or wherever you think they might fit in our community.