Please indicate your interest to become a mentee in the Bioconductor Developer Mentorship program.

The Bioconductor Developer Mentorship Program is a Bioconductor Community Advisory Board (CAB) initiative. It is a group-mentorship/buddy program for would-be, new, or hesitant developers or for developers who wish to refresh their skills which will help you get from R scripts to a fully fledged Bioconductor package.

Applicant mentees should have a GitHub account and at least R scripts in a public code repository (e.g., GitHub , Gitlab). The R code should demonstrate functionality and the applicant is applying to the mentorship program to package it into an R/Bioconductor package. The mentees should have ownership or explicit permission to use the code.

The goal of the program is to welcome and onboard new developers, develop educational material to assist new developers, improve the quality of packages submitted to Bioconductor, and strengthen community and interactions between Bioconductor developers.

Each mentorship program cycle will run for one development cycle of Bioconductor package release (approximately 6 months), with the aim to submit a candidate package to the 'Bioconductor/Contributions' GitHub repository
(https://github.com/Bioconductor/Contributions), with sufficient advance for review ahead of the following release deadline.

Mentors are not expected to be co-authors of the resulting package or any associated publication. As such, they also are not expected to contribute to the package in the form of code or documentation. Rather, they can be expected to provide expert advice on best practices and resources for the development and improvement of package functionality and coding practices. Any other agreement should be discussed between mentor, mentee, and supervisor/line manager, if applicable.

For more information about the program, see the Bioconductor website (https://bioconductor.org/) or the Bioconductor 'New Developer Mentorship and Assistance' statement (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q-Hxmy0ZcKzKSbB-dtg02gJRlZ0Vi6WNOTF-W3bwjmY/edit?usp=sharing).