Re: To all candidates: personal mentoring

2010-03-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Serafeim, On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:15:45AM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > Dear candidates, > > With respect to attracting new contributors, please ponder the idea of a > formal one-on-one mentoring scheme (as opposed to one-off interactions via > d-mentors). I tend to believe that what

Re: To all candidates: personal mentoring

2010-03-25 Thread gregor herrmann
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 cont

Re: To all candidates: personal mentoring

2010-03-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:15:45AM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > With respect to attracting new contributors, please ponder the idea of a > formal one-on-one mentoring scheme (as opposed to one-off interactions via > d-mentors). > > I do realise that personal mentorship takes time; that's a r

Re: To all candidates: personal mentoring

2010-03-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:15:45AM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas a écrit : > Dear candidates, > > I do realise that personal mentorship takes time; that's a reason to set > criteria [1] and thresholds on who gets to have a mentor [2], instead of not > considering the idea all together. > > I'd think

Re: To all candidates: personal mentoring

2010-03-24 Thread Margarita Manterola
Hi! On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > With respect to attracting new contributors, please ponder the idea of a > formal one-on-one mentoring scheme (as opposed to one-off interactions via > d-mentors). There's been a mentoring program inside the Debian Women project s