Mentorship program for new contributors/students

[Eric Gentry]

In the JupyterLab weekly meeting, a possible mentorship program for new Jupyter contributors/students was discussed. This issue collects some of the ideas around that concept, in the hope that we can eventually act and start up some kind of mentorship program.

Questions/notes:

• At a basic level, a mentor(s) could be assigned a student that they will shepherd through the process of adding some feature to JupyterLab (or Notebook, etc).
• Could use the Distinguished Contributor model to keep mentors engaged
• Can take inspiration from Google Summer of Code mentoring/acceptance/funding model (funding will be tricky, unsure if we will be able to make that part work)
• Some relevant prior discussion here