From: Jim Clark <diegoslice@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T09:29:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Adopt-a-newbie? Based on actual experience.

Pat Maddox wrote:
> p.s. I didn't read the contract, so I have no clue what it looks like.
> But I can just about guarantee you that anything called a contract
> and delivered in .doc is of no interest to me :)
>
Agreements/contracts don't have to be long, ugly or scary (disclosure: 
IANAL). I'll do some editing of the one I found but basically it boils 
down to this:

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This agreement supports the mentoring partnership between:
Mentor:
Mentee:
Date: 

Agreed objectives:
*
Mentee:* (What I hope to get from this mentoring partnership....)
*
Mentor**:*  (I will provide support in the following ways - email, phone 
hours, etc. ............): 

*The groundrules for our mentoring partnership are:* This should include 
your agreed responses to issues of confidentiality, time commitment, 
availability (when and where you can both be contacted), ...

*Reviewing partnership objectives:* (It is a good idea to review this 
agreement and your objectives at an appropriate time).

We will review this agreement on: _____________

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If people agree that this is too time consuming or unnecessary, 
completely understood and I'll drop it. I just think that having 
potential matches get to know each other a little better and discuss 
some groundrules is not a bad thing.

-Jim