On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 18:29 +0200, Martin Schlander wrote:
If people have the required dedication, time and potential to learn these things, nothing's stopping them. And if people display dedication and potential there will also be someone willing to help them a little along the way when needed.
But noone wants to handhold someone for hours or maybe even days, just to see them lose interest just as suddenly as they popped up. I'm pretty non- technical myself, but I have seen this a lot of times trying to help people getting started with translating...
You're thinking small. :-) An effective training program, through documentation, online seminars, training sessions, etc. will educate large numbers of people at once. Handholding implies mentoring one person at a time. And while I endorse the idea of everyone finding someone to mentor, obviously the risk is great if that person drops out for one reason or another. But even in the case of that one person who drops out after much handholding, we have to ask the question why did that person drop out? Perhaps it was time constraints. Perhaps the person didn't feel he/she was getting much out of their mentor. Perhaps they've come to a block in the road, don't know how to get over it and can't get the answers they're looking for. We can't expect our mentors to know everything. They don't. And hopefully, as more people become educated, they too will step up and carry the mantra of educating the masses, thus reducing the burden of that first teacher. We can, and we *should* grow our community through education. Bryen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org