On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yeah, so one nice advantage of our infastructure being 100% open source > is that you can (and should) be able to install and test and play with > it anywhere. :) > > For puppet/ansible type things, if you have even a single > fedora/rhel/centos machine you should be able to have ansible or puppet > manage it locally. You don't need more than 1 machine to start out > with. > > The biggest issue we have with on-ramping new folks (IMHO) is that most > of us 'full timers' don't have time to do a lot of one on one > mentoring, so instead we try and have new people ask questions of > everyone and try and do as much as possible themselves to get going. > This means people who need more help or people who aren't very self > starter tend to have a harder time getting involved. > > I've been thinking of ways to improve things. I'm not sure test > instances would really be that much help, as it should be easy to use > any machine to play around with things. > > Two ideas: > > 1. At our weekly meeting each week, we block off 15min and do a > quick/short session where we talk about a particular application or > tool and explain how it works, where docs are and what we want to > do/need help with on it. > > or, if thats too quick/not enough use: I am not sure how much would I be able to grasp in 15 minutes. It seems like a very short span of time to me. > 2. Setup bi-weekly/monthly classroom sessions. Longer sessions, but the > same idea of going over a tool/app/thing we want to get help on/bring > people up to speed on. Or even a workshop/"office hours" where we go > over specific easyfix tickets or the like. What if the puppet session happened yesterday and I happened to get into FI today. > Thoughts? How about videos recorded in the office by people who have awesome experience on certain tools/apps?. Personally I would love that. We can still have workshops but they could be more hands-on and focused to get things done (FAD?) _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
