On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 23:31 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>Is this useful? After all, mentoring doesn't have to be
just
>expert-to-expert. In my job, I taught Linux to thousands of law
>enforcement and intelligence community professionals who weren't
>computer experts by trade. Most of them are still using it to some
>extent today, and many embraced it. (A few even switched to it!)
>
I am willing to participate in any such efforts provided it isnt too
much of a time drain for me. It would certainly help me better
understand what new users would want or need in baby steps
To be honest Rahul, mentoring users, especially very new ones, is a
*HUGE* time (and patience) drain. If you can't devote a lot of both to
it, you're best off devoting your considerable (!) energies
elsewhere. :-) Besides, you're already providing FedoraNews, monitoring
all the mailing lists, IRC, etc. I would think the best way for you to
help, with the visibility you have, is to encourage Fedora community
members who are not super-involved but want to help new people like
Judy/Sue.
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