Reviving the idea of Fedora Mentors?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 12:01 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > >From where I sit, I think there are several  people willing to help
> > new folks to the project.  The problem is making sure the new
> > contributors know who to contact for help or those early questions new
> > contributors might have.  So just a re-awareness of the Fedora Mentors
> > project, the effort to keep that page up to date and to make sure each
> > SIG/Project has a mentor representative would be a big step in the
> > right direction.
> 
> Perhaps a revamp of the join.fp.o page? We can keep the cool icons etc,
> but we could add more content that explains the process in general
> terms, introduces the idea of mentors and points people to the list and
> IRC for help?
> 
> I may have a crack at writing something like this later on today...

Jef had mentioned using office hours as a basis for keeping IRC helpful.
We should use that idea to make mentoring into a real commitment.

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