On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Jay S. Bryant < jsbry...@electronicjungle.net> wrote:
> Josh, > > I agree that the mailing list is a hard place to provide such guidance > and direction. I find mailing lists intimidating. Had taken me some > time to be comfortable submitting here. > > After my response to this note the other day I was pinged internally via > our messaging client asking for some mentoring. They seemed more > comfortable introducing themselves that way and talking. I hate to > suggest an IRC channel for this, as IRC drives me nuts, also doesn't > seem the best fit. Maybe instead a wiki page with IRC names of people > that are willing to be individually contacted with requests for > guidance. I could be listed as a contact for Cinder or i18n as well as > a general process contact. You for taskflow, etc. > We started #openstack-101 for the purpose of onboarding new contributors (not for learning OpenStack necessary). So we could use that as well as the wiki page, which is a great idea. > > I guess a way to communicate what we feel we can help with and provide > that as a resource for those who may need help in those areas. Also, on > the same wiki maybe try to cull together some of the 'getting started > info. > > What do you think? > > Jay > > On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 15:42 -0700, Joshua Harlow wrote: > > Awesome, > > > > > > When I start to see emails on ML that say anyone need any help for > > XYZ ... (which is great btw) it makes me feel like there should be a > > more appropriate avenue for those inspirational folks looking to get > > involved (a ML isn't really the best place for this kind of guidance > > and directing). > > > > > > And in general mentoring will help all involved if we all do more of > > it :-) > > > > > > Let me know if any thing is needed that I can possible help with to > > get more of it going. > > > > > > -Josh > > > > On Jul 23, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Jay Bryant > > <jsbry...@electronicjungle.net> wrote: > > > > > Great question Josh! > > > > > > Have been doing a lot of mentoring within IBM for OpenStack and have > > > now been asked to formalize some of that work. Not surprised there > > > is an external need as well. > > > > > > Anne and Stefano. Let me know if the kids anything I can do to > > > help. > > > > > > Jay > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I was reading over a IMHO insightful hacker news thread last night: > > > > > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8068547 > > > > > > Labeled/titled: 'I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can do it too' > > > > > > It made me wonder what kind of mentoring support are we as a > > > community offering to newbies (a random google search for 'openstack > > > mentoring' shows mentors for GSoC, mentors for interns, outreach for > > > women... but no mention of mentors as a way for everyone to get > > > involved)? > > > > > > Looking at the comments in that hacker news thread, the article > > > itself it seems like mentoring is stressed over and over as the way > > > to get involved. > > > > > > Has there been ongoing efforts to establish such a program (I know > > > there is training work that has been worked on, but that's not > > > exactly the same). > > > > > > Thoughts, comments...? > > > > > > -Josh > > > _______________________________________________ > > > OpenStack-dev mailing list > > > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > OpenStack-dev mailing list > > > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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