Awesome looking forward to this, I would love to be a mentor this year Regards
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 11:56 PM James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > Nice to have so many people wanting to be involved in mentoring, but > you must be involved in Sugar Labs. > > Please use and test Music Blocks, Sugarizer, and Sugar. > > Please post about your tests; what worked well, what didn't work, and > if you can use GitHub create issues. > > Where you have selected mentoring for coding, write some more code. > > Where you have selected mentoring for design, get involved in user > experience research or user interface design and interaction. > > Where you have chosen mentoring for documentation, write some more > documentation. > > You can't teach what you don't do. > > Google says this in > > https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/faq#how_can_i_be_a_mentor_for_google_code-in > > "You should already be a participant in the organization/open source > project that you wish to be a mentor for." > > After past experiences I'm not interested in mentors who don't know > what Sugar Labs software does or how it can be used. Such mentors are > disruptive. They say things that are wrong. They make technical > decisions in ignorance. In short, they misrepresent our community of > designers, developers, and documenters. > > Mentors who don't even have time to try out our software can avoid > this dissonance by; > > - passing on to others questions that are outside their knowledge, > > - asking public questions on behalf of a student, > > - when time is of the essence, approve a task and leave the details of > how it is tidied up to the people who know best, > > When a student asks you a question in private you don't know the > answer to, don't make something up yourself. Get them involved in > community and communicating in the open; > > Google says this in > > https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/help/responsibilities#to_your_students > > "Mentor Responsibilities ... to your Students ... Help and/or teach > the student how to ... be a part of your community ... communicate > more effectively and in the open". > > Hope that helps! > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.netrek.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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