# Channels for mentoring

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/channels-for-mentoring/12134>\
**Category:** JuliaCon\
**Created:** [July 3, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/channels-for-mentoring/12134 "2018-07-03T15:10:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jlapeyre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jlapeyre/32/4514_2.png) [@jlapeyre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jlapeyre)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/channels-for-mentoring/12134/1 "2018-07-03T15:10:29Z")

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Does anyone care to share opinions on what kind of channels are useful for communication between mentors and mentees of talks and posters ? Perhaps mentors/ees from 2017 ?

My first thought is email + Dropbox or similar.

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/channels-for-mentoring/12134/2 "2018-07-03T15:14:04Z")

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Probably Slack. I find that the best mentoring is helping someone get situated in the larger community.

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**Author:** ![jlapeyre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jlapeyre/32/4514_2.png) [@jlapeyre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jlapeyre)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/channels-for-mentoring/12134/3 "2018-07-03T15:18:45Z")

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Good idea. I imagine both direct messaging and a mentoring channel would be useful… But, it can be a bit of work to get around the “out of space” messages when posting pdfs and the like

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**Author:** ![oxinabox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oxinabox/32/206603_2.png) [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/channels-for-mentoring/12134/4 "2018-07-10T00:43:40Z")

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Stick the PDF on Google drive or Dropbox etc and just public link it?

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**Author:** ![jlapeyre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jlapeyre/32/4514_2.png) [@jlapeyre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jlapeyre)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2018, 7:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/channels-for-mentoring/12134/5 "2018-07-10T07:04:24Z")

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Yeah that sounds good. Google drive / Dropbox + slack for chatting.