On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:08:00 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Still, in your question you're hinting at some earlier mentoring, and I > believe that should happen in teams. [..]
> That is why I like the http://www.debian.org/Teams/ page. Ideally, that > can become the welcome place for new contributors which will first look > around what they like to do and then approach the corresponding team on > the suggested media. /me agrees twice. > In principle, we can additionally establish within team some form of > personal mentoring with the goal of bringing accompanying the newbie to > the advocacy mail. In practice I doubt it would change much the status > quo, but I agree it might be nice from the newbie POV (e.g. he/she will > have someone to mail when feeling unsure about some course of action). JFTR: There was a BOF around these questions during the last DebConf; the summary and some resources are linked from http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Resources Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Tom Waits: Day After Tomorrow
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