-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > So this list has been basically empty this year -- no posts so far in all > of 2006. Which is a shame; it's an idea with potential. > > Why hasn't it succeeded? My idea: I don't think people know what is asked > of them, as mentors. o We have not talked about it. We have not blogged about it. We have not pimped it enough. o Should we have a mentor banner/sticker/logo on personal websites/blogs/whatever foo we do ? (www.fedora-mentors.org perhaps...) > How can we do that? Simple: every Approved Fedora Mentor (tm) pledges to > spend one hour a week, every week, on IRC. Err...do both my logins count ? ;) No on a serious note, we might look at the way GNOME BUG days are handled. Declaring an all hands mentor day for a particular topic and giving it serious love is something that can really change the way we do our business. > Just one hour -- but that hour is advertised heavily. As in, posted to > the wiki, and as the title of the #fedora channel on freenode, and sent to > all the Fedora forums. The Mentors would be the Go To People for newbies > in the Fedora project. Mentors (for their respective fields) also could have a short document (nothing fancy) ready that provides the new mentee pointers to where to go, where to begin, what to expect and what are the usual suspect URLs. Myself and Ramakrishna Reddy (who is too lazy to put his name up on the wiki) are interacting with our first batch who are teaching us some lessons in *being prepared*. > Over time, we'd be sending LOTS of people here. Imagine: college students > worldwide, looking for help on projects. Business people, looking to > prove that open source is right for them. In all the presentations that Fedora has please have 1 slide about the Mentor Project when you talk about HowTo Contribute to Fedora. > Is one hour a week worth it? Can you do it? Can you commit to it? You got it. - -Sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEDj+HXQZpNTcrCzMRAlfeAJ4kmVeEkNUqgLWy52WP7D2KOjmrwACgkgcr FPDT+In7CiZzysWZ8Bw1oHk= =k7fX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Fedora-mentors-list mailing list Fedora-mentors-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mentors-list
