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On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 19:14 +0200, toogley(a)mailbox.org wrote:
Hey,
maybe a kind of "mentoring" program could also help?
We have discussed this, yea, and in general we're all in favour of some
sort of mentoring program. Now, the issue comes up when we discuss the
implementation details.
I consider this as helpful, because in my initial open source
contributions at debian, i had some questions I felt too
"embarrassed" asking them on a mailing list or in a IRC channel. I
thought these question were too basic/obvious and therefore I was
hesitating of asking.
Fortunately, the debian mentoring program caused one person to be my
personal contact person. And well, I felt less hesitated asking him
those "silly" questions than asking them on a open mailinglist.
=> The point is, asking a dumb question to one person is in my
opinion easier than asking a dumb question on a whole mailinglist
with maybe hundreds of people reading it.
Therefore, i think providing one particular contact person to ask any
question may result in less hurdles for newbies.
I'm personally against a single point of contact system. It works in
quite a few cases, but it also doesn't in quite a few. The ambassadors
are using such a process, and there are quite a few cases where for
whatever reason, the mentor goes MIA, or the menatee goes MIA. It could
be because in the ambassadors process, there are many newbies and few
mentors, and the workload is quite heavy to carry as a result.
So, I'm more in favour of "pool mentoring", where you have a "pool of
mentors" that mentor a "pool of newbies". This way, newbies have more
than one point of contact. This has its own issues, though. Like you
said, newbies may prefer a more personal one to one style of mentoring
- - they may feel the same fear when it comes to asking "stupid"
questions to a pool of mentors.
Community members putting themselves out there to be asked questions
may be the middle ground here - you don't officially have a mentor, but
you know a few people that are happy to receive personal e-mails and
the sort. I wonder how we can encourage this without causing community
members an overload?
Historically, we did have a team of mentors - I don't know why it died
out. We could reignite it required - we need to keep discussing this.
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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
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