Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-28 Thread Julie Pichon
On 23/07/14 18:29, Joshua Harlow wrote: 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

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-25 Thread Anne Gentle
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

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-25 Thread Abhishek L
Anne Gentle writes: 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

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-25 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On 07/23/2014 11:02 AM, Anne Gentle wrote: I'll let Stefano answer further, but yes, we've discussed a centralized mentoring program for a year or so. I'm not sure we have enough mentors available, there are certainly plenty of people seeking and needing mentoring. So he can elaborate more on

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-24 Thread Ajaya Agrawal
That is a very good suggestion. I started contributing to openstack three months back. IMO it is not that difficult to get started and there are many blogs which can help you get started. There are many low hanging fruits which could be fixed by newbies. The real problem comes when you are post

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-24 Thread Joshua Harlow
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

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-24 Thread Joshua Harlow
Sorry about repeatedly blasting this out. I blame mail.app or outlook.com... Hopefully the glitch has been fixed... -Josh On Jul 23, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Joshua Harlow harlo...@outlook.com wrote: Awesome, When I start to see emails on ML that say anyone need any help for XYZ ... (which is

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-24 Thread Jay S. Bryant
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

[openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-23 Thread Joshua Harlow
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

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-23 Thread Cindy Pallares
On 07/23/2014 01:02 PM, Anne Gentle wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Joshua Harlow harlo...@outlook.com wrote: 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,

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-23 Thread Anne Gentle
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Joshua Harlow harlo...@outlook.com wrote: 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

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-23 Thread Tim Freund
On 07/23/2014 02:16 PM, Cindy Pallares wrote: On 07/23/2014 01:02 PM, Anne Gentle wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Joshua Harlow harlo...@outlook.com wrote: Hi all, I was reading over a IMHO insightful hacker news thread last night: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8068547

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-23 Thread Jay Bryant
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

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-23 Thread Joshua Harlow
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

Re: [openstack-dev] Mentor program?

2014-07-23 Thread Joshua Harlow
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