The goals of the IETF Education and Mentoring Directorate are to enhance the productivity of IETF work, expand diversity and inclusiveness of the IETF, and enable the IETF to facilitate technical development and innovation in the Internet. In support of this goal, this directorate will structure and guide the educational activities and associated materials to be more accessible, relevant, reusable, and broadly understandable. The directorate shall also help the mentoring activities to focus on the establishment of relationships that enable productive participation in the IETF. Next, this directorate will serve as a coordination function for IETF related outreach activities, directed at participants, ensuring that related activities are sufficiently coordinated and have the necessary education and mentoring program support. Finally, the directorate will work on improved metrics and measurements for assessing the effectiveness of directorate activities. This directorate serves the General (GEN) area in IETF. The participants include the project leaders of the defined education, mentoring, and outreach coordination projects, the IESG and tools liaisons to educational activities, the IETF chair, IETF executive director, and additional members selected as needed. The initial projects identified by the directorate are: - Tutorials - Online educational materials (content and organization) - Ongoing document maintenance (Tao, “About the IETF”, etc) - Newcomer’s Outreach (meet and greet, social dinner, emails) - WG Chairs Forum - Mentoring - IETF Hubs - Assessment metrics and measurement Success of these activities depends on support from the community. Specific examples of volunteers currently needed: - Website reviewers - IETF Overview Document editors - WG Chair Forum coordinator - Configuring tutorials for better online access - Online educational materials (content and organization) Please send email to Karen and the IETF Chair to volunteer! Jari Arkko Karen O'Donoghue
