MENTORS: some feedback, please. :)
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
All,
I've created a draft of a new mentors page. A little simpler, with
contact information more readily available. Please take a look and let me
know what you think:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MentorsVersionTwo
I also introduce here the notion of "rave reviews". Yes, I realize that
any "rating system" can be gamed, but I think it's important that people
who give their time as mentors have the opportunity to be recognized.
In any event, whatever we decide we'd like the Mentors pages to look like,
I think it's time to:
1. Verify that everyone on the mentors page still wants to be a mentor,
so that we have a solid base we can count on.
2. Start advertising the presence of the mentors page heavily. Mairin put
together a great mockup for something we could put in the nav bar; I'd
like to implement that, or something similar.
3. Start recruiting heavily for new mentors, with a focus on expanding the
areas of expertise for mentoring. More translation/localization mentors,
more international members, more free Java mentors, more mentors
generally.
Just some ideas. I'd love to move forward with them, but only if you all
think the changes are useful.
--g
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18 years
No Internet in FC 5 (fwd)
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
Does anyone want to help this poor soul out?
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:28:41 -0700
From: Ben Bullard <benny.bullard(a)gmail.com>
To: Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk(a)fedoraproject.org>
Subject: No Internet in FC 5
Greg DeKoenigsberg,
My handle on the Fedora Forum [and others] is Red Knuckles
[benny.bullard(a)gmail.com]. I installed FC 5 on a Linux multiboot [Suse
10.0 and Ubuntu 5.10] 6 days ago. My problem is that I can't access the
Internet. Oddly I ran FC 3 and FC 4 on the same machine with no such
problem. I posted this under title "No Internet in FC 5" in the Fedora
Forum and every other forum I could find that covered Fedora. I only got
replies on the Fedora Forum and LinuxQuestions.org and tried everything
suggested. Also my Linux users group [lugoj(a)lugoj.org]. I'm getting
desperate and don't know where to turn to for help. Can you help or
point me in another direction? I tried to file a bug report on Bugzilla
but I'm to much of a newbie to figure it out [don't understand the jargon].
--
Thanks,
Newbie,
ben bullard
18 years, 1 month
Re-introduction, re-launch, comments?
by Greg DeKoenigsberg
So this list has been basically empty this year -- no posts so far in all
of 2006. Which is a shame; it's an idea with potential.
Why hasn't it succeeded? My idea: I don't think people know what is asked
of them, as mentors.
Let me make a proposal, and see what you guys think of it.
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The Fedora Mentors program is a way of *guaranteeing* real-time,
meaningful, specific help to people who come to IRC to ask for it.
How can we do that? Simple: every Approved Fedora Mentor (tm) pledges to
spend one hour a week, every week, on IRC.
Just one hour -- but that hour is advertised heavily. As in, posted to
the wiki, and as the title of the #fedora channel on freenode, and sent to
all the Fedora forums. The Mentors would be the Go To People for newbies
in the Fedora project.
Each Approved Fedora Mentor (tm) must have deep experience in at least one
of the Fedora projects or SIGs (special interest groups).
Over time, we'd be sending LOTS of people here. Imagine: college students
worldwide, looking for help on projects. Business people, looking to
prove that open source is right for them.
One hour a week. Maybe it's just trolling Google to help people who can't
help themselves; maybe it's patiently explaining how to burn Fedora CDs
for someone who's using Windows. Maybe it's troubleshooting
NetworkManager for the zillionth time. Maybe it's explaining the
internals of the Extras build system.
The most important thing, though: for that one hour, the Mentors are
GUARANTEED to be there. Backed up by Fedora's good name.
Is one hour a week worth it? Can you do it? Can you commit to it?
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
--g
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18 years, 1 month
Hacking for Christ: Summer Of Code - Six Months On
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
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None of the ten projects shows any sign whatsoever of work having
continued after the SoC deadline. Not one. No development-related
mailing list traffic, no releases, nothing. It's as if the people
vanished off the face of the earth on September 2nd.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2006/03/summer_of_code_six_m...
- -> Something that one needs to guard against.
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You see things; and you say 'Why?';
But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
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18 years, 1 month
A member's proposal
by yzzorro
All administrators:
Firstly, i want to say that i love fedora project and i am willing to
do something for Fedora Project. it is proud of me to be a contributor to
redhat, i am waitting for that, but until now i do
not get a chance.
I hear from your letters that you find you do not obtain any success in
this Fedora-mentors
-list project, i think a new thing needs some time to be accepted by most
people. Do not lose
patience! More and More people will support you.
Wait For Chance!
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Image Forever, Challenge Forever !
18 years, 1 month
