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+# Mentee Guide for Group Mentoring
+This doc is a work in progress
+
+## Welcome and Summary
+Welcome prospective mentee! This is an experimental group mentoring program
+where individuals will work self-paced in a semi-structured learning environment
+over the course of three months. Want to get lgtm rights? Be a decision maker in
+an OWNERS file? This could be a great way to get the knowledge you need, some
+accountability to do it, and interact with active contributors who may on the
+same path as you and our experienced Kubernetes developers.
+
+During the three month period, you will work on a path to the next level of
+membership which will take some work along with peers who have the same goal.
+This cohort will include mentors who are at least the level that you are
+targeting with ample experience in the project. These mentors will counsel but
+not provide answers to the problem or the solution itself. Think of them as true
+pilots of the sea - navigational experts - only to our codebase. At the end of
+the three month period, you'll have conversations with the mentors about getting
+into the OWNERs file.
+
+Familiarize yourself with the [community membership requirements doc]including
+the requirements needed for your specific journey. You’ll receive sponsorship
+from the mentors and other people you've worked on issues/PRs with upon
+successful completion of the program.
+
+## Expectations  
+* You understand the requirements to become $member_role (ex: member->reviewer)
+* Good standing throughout the program and uphold our code of conduct
+* Check-in during a designated day on slack for a "stand-up". Mentors will be
+there that day, too, and guaranteed feedback.
+* Be helpful to your peers in the cohort
+* Give back and be a mentor in a future cohort
+* Mutual respect from mentors and peers who are in the cohort with you
+
+### Member to Reviewer Cohort
+Topics that are good for discussion during that time period:
+* Code Reviews the Kubernetes Way (i.e. best practices)
+* How to groom issues for new members/contributors
+* Communicating effectively (on GH and throughout project)
+* Technical documentation
+* Kubernetes Governance 201 (SIG deep dive, proposals)
+* Testing (what should be an e2e test, how to write S, M, L, tests)
+* Kubernetes Governance 101 (keps, subprojects, OWNERS files, steering committee,
+etc.)
+* Identifying & understanding issue backlog and prioritization
+* Contributing to testing (how to run tests and create new ones)
+
+Suggested Activity
+* Be a tech reviewer for docs
+* Write an E2E test
+* Help out in #pr-reviews
+
+### Current Approver Cohort
+* Communicating effectively as a leader (on GH and throughout project)
+* How to write better docs (release notes, etc.)
+* How to propose a new feature (features, design proposals)
+TODO: add more here
+
+### Other Help Resources
+- slack
+	- #kubernetes-dev
+	- your respective sig or other sigs that could help
+		- [SIG List]
+		- #sig-contribex
+	- #meet-our-contributors
+	- #pr-reviews
+- mailing lists
+	- kubernetes-dev@googlegroups.com
+	- your respective sig (ie - kubernetes-sig-cli@googlegroups.com)
+- contributor office hours
+	- Kubernetes Community Office Hours
+	- #office-hours on slack
+- the docs
+	- kubernetes/community is your friend for upstream workflows, processes, and
+	information around contributing
+	- This repo includes the community/contributors/devel folder which will be
+	extra helpful that includes docs such as:
+    - [Code Review Expectations]
+    - [Collaboration on k8s]
+
+Thank you to both mentees and mentors for taking on this new, unchartered
+territory! We will be building documentation around you and appreciate your
+guidance as a founding member of this program!
+
+[community membership requirements doc]: /community-membership.md
+[SIG List]: /sig-list.md
+[Code Review Expectations]: /contributors/guide/expectations.md
+[Collaboration on k8s]: /contributors/guide/collab.md