I overheard a chat between Karlie Robinson and a student from Japan in the #teachingopensource channel and thought it made a fantastic example of a good first conversation between a new FOSS contributor and an experienced one who happens upon them and tries to get them started.
With Karlie's permission, I'm posting it here, and I've added some annotations and notes for both students and mentors (please edit/add/comment, either here or directly on the wiki page, if there's something you spot about the conversational dynamics that you'd want to point out). I thought it might make a good reference/discussion-artifact for classes that are introducing their students to IRC for the first time, to give them an idea of the sorts of conversations they should look for and expect. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mchua/Newcomer_convo --Mel PS: I do wish more folks would reflect upon IRC conversations they've overheard - they contain a lot of information about the culture of FOSS communities that I think many of us experienced FOSS contributors frequently take for granted, and actually can no longer spot ourselves (because it's "normal" for us). _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
