Hi, I only just subscribed and only have read some of the discussion so this may be a bit off topic or already discussed.
But I was wondering if the project has thought about explicitly encouraging mentoring in techniques for handling interpersonal conflict and helping members develop interpersonal skills? I know there's active research into managing team conflict, and I bet there are some Debian members who have been more effective at helping other team members that we might be able to learn from. I know we have methods to share technical skills via policies and best practices, but how do we identify and share useful social techniques? For instance I think active listening is a useful technique when trying to develop a consensus about a topic. (e.g. http://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/active_listening#data-tab-how ) But I don't know how many others know about it and there would need to be some adjustment for a distributed team like Debian. Diane