On 3/14/13 4:31 PM, Eggert, Lars wrote:
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.
After making a statement in the plenary about mentors, I was asked to
make something happen. I have been talking to a few people about
putting together an experimental approach to matching newcomers (not
just first-timers) and volunteer (non-I* participants) mentors. Stay
tuned for more details.
Regards,
Brian