Because I've been remiss at announcing this to the Marketing list in any sort of way: I'm at Allegheny College for the next 2 weeks working with 40 students (who'll be with us 'till the start of May when F13 launches) - you'll see more news about this trickle in, and I'll make sure to keep the list updated from now on. (Thanks to David for reminding me to hit the list.)
15:08 <ke4qqq> cool - I was going to say - I just searched my mail for allegheny - and don't see any messages in marketing about these students coming on - so I am wondering if it's a 'secret' that you have to know mel to know 15:10 <mchua> No, it's a "mel is a slacker and hasn't pushed this news to mktg." 15:10 <mchua> Let me do that now. 15:11 <ke4qqq> I figured it was just an oversight - prolly telling so many people in so many venues that this one was forgotten 15:14 <mchua> It was perfectionism, plain and simple - forgot about "release early release often" and went "ohhh, wait until we have all the details down." 15:16 <ke4qqq> on the list issue - how are they gonna help shepherding the students if they can't see the exchanges 15:18 <mchua> So... this one was a compromise on my part. We're dealing with students by project teams, so that we can introduce them to individuals in the community working on those specific projects. 15:18 <mchua> for instance, Russell and Justin on the video site, etc. 15:18 <mchua> Henrik on press kits. 15:18 <mchua> We're going to start with private email introductions (yeah, I winced at that too) to those individuals, to get them and the project team on the same page. 15:19 <mchua> And the *first* thing I'm going to be working with Matt, Darren, and each student/community-member team to do is their introduction to the list, to IRC, the wiki, etc. - wherever the "Fedora mentor" feels is the best venue to start them off on. 15:19 <mchua> Because otherwise we get 40 students hitting the list all at once with no context. 15:20 <mchua> Rather than, say, an email co-written by Nicu and a couple students working on the Design Spin webpage saying "hey, we're from Allegheny, we'll be doing X, Nicu's been helping us get started," etc etc etc. 15:21 <mchua> It is... amazing... how much scaffolding we need to move 40 students all at once. 15:22 <ke4qqq> yeah - though I mean think about how much time it takes to acclimate a single person - I think it took me over a year to begin to grok how communities worked 15:25 * mchua nods 15:26 <mchua> and we've got to get *all* of them productive within 5 weeks, while they're taking other classes 15:26 <mchua> so... yeah. Learning a lot.
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