Hi, On Mar 14, 2013, at 16:26, Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I haven't observed that many newcomers at the newcomer meet-and-greet. > They seem to be overwhelmed (numerically) by the ADs+chairs that go, which > is reinforced by ADs+chairs using it as a taking-care-of-business > opportunity as John observed. > > So, also along the "much as I like free beer", maybe it should be just the > ADs, unless the number of newcomers that go increases. if we do the newcomer-mentor-mailing-list-syncup proposal I described, you could restrict attendance to the beer to mentors that have been chosen by a mentoree... This may also widen the mentor pool. Lars