Re: [guadec-list] Helping newcomers finding friends at GUADEC

[Lasse Schuirmann]

Well, we gotta carry around those badges anyway. If they are to be
carried visibly you could indicate newcomer friendliness by giving the
name or so a background colour, while "normal attendees" have
something boring and "newcomer mentors" have something exclusive and
exciting, in terms of colours ;).

But yeah, buttons will do as well. Though I tend to not see them. It
should be easily visible especially if you're not already talking to
the person.
Sincerely,

Lasse Schuirmann

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On 1 August 2016 at 14:13, Benjamin Berg  wrote:
> On Mo, 2016-08-01 at 12:44 +0200, Lasse Schuirmann wrote:
>> At europython they had "Mentor" badges and made it publicly known
>> that
>> peope with those badges are at all times willing to answer every
>> single question for newcomers.
>>
>> If it's not too late that could be printed with the rest on the
>> attendee badges?
>
> We could also manually print another badge for some people. We also
> have a 25mm button machine available which we could use for this
> purpose.
>
> Benjamin
>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Lasse Schuirmann
>>
>> la...@schuirmann.net
>> http://coala-analyzer.org/ - http://viperdev.io/ -
>> http://gitmate.com/
>>
>>
>> On 1 August 2016 at 11:35, Benjamin Berg 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have wondered a bit whether we could offer something that helps
>> > new
>> > or inexperienced community members to make friends at the
>> > conference.
>> >
>> > I heard that in A Coruna there were some games where you had simple
>> > tasks in the style of "Find a release team member and ask them …".
>> > Another example would be here at university where the first year
>> > students are generally split into groups of around 20 people and
>> > spend
>> > almost a week together doing different activities to help them
>> > bond.
>> >
>> > I think it would be perfectly possible to organize something simple
>> > even on a short notice. So if someone has an idea how we may help
>> > individuals to e.g. start conversations with old community members,
>> > to
>> > go grab food with others, or to engage them in other ways then I
>> > would
>> > love to hear about it.
>> >
>> > We can provide some resources (e.g. printing or buying stuff), but
>> > we
>> > don't have the resources in the core team to fully plan such
>> > activities.
>> >
>> > Benjamin
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Re: [guadec-list] Helping newcomers finding friends at GUADEC

[Benjamin Berg]

On Mo, 2016-08-01 at 12:44 +0200, Lasse Schuirmann wrote:
> At europython they had "Mentor" badges and made it publicly known
> that
> peope with those badges are at all times willing to answer every
> single question for newcomers.
> 
> If it's not too late that could be printed with the rest on the
> attendee badges?

We could also manually print another badge for some people. We also
have a 25mm button machine available which we could use for this
purpose.

Benjamin

> Sincerely,
> 
> Lasse Schuirmann
> 
> la...@schuirmann.net
> http://coala-analyzer.org/ - http://viperdev.io/ -
> http://gitmate.com/
> 
> 
> On 1 August 2016 at 11:35, Benjamin Berg 
> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have wondered a bit whether we could offer something that helps
> > new
> > or inexperienced community members to make friends at the
> > conference.
> > 
> > I heard that in A Coruna there were some games where you had simple
> > tasks in the style of "Find a release team member and ask them …".
> > Another example would be here at university where the first year
> > students are generally split into groups of around 20 people and
> > spend
> > almost a week together doing different activities to help them
> > bond.
> > 
> > I think it would be perfectly possible to organize something simple
> > even on a short notice. So if someone has an idea how we may help
> > individuals to e.g. start conversations with old community members,
> > to
> > go grab food with others, or to engage them in other ways then I
> > would
> > love to hear about it.
> > 
> > We can provide some resources (e.g. printing or buying stuff), but
> > we
> > don't have the resources in the core team to fully plan such
> > activities.
> > 
> > Benjamin
> > ___
> > engagement-list mailing list
> > engagement-list@gnome.org
> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
> > 
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