8 Dec
2013
8 Dec
'13
20:33
On Tuesday 03 December 2013 23:20:55 Manu Gupta wrote: > Sure, I have no issues with it, but links are usually lost :( > > We have some ideas here also, sharing your opinions here also. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mentors was an effort started a long time ago - and, like many before and after, died a slow death due to a lack of participation. In our team discussions we spoke about how mentoring is handled in other communities - obviously, Tomas knows quite a bit about gentoo. He mentioned that active mentoring is a (soft?) requirement for maintainership and that is not a crazy idea. I would like to point out that plans, proposals, wiki pages and google documents have done anything in the past three years. Perhaps we should ask: how can we reward people for mentoring, and how can we encourage them? About the idea that it can probably sustain itself, as Robert noted: that would be awesome but at least my experience is different. As the ambassador- and marketing programs have shown, when a few key people put in lots of energy, a huge multiplication effect can follow. See the statistics I shared. Once the key people go away, things fall apart. In the ambassador program, the sending of materials and the engagement on the mailing lists and IRC channels were instrumental in the building of the program. Without that, it fell apart. And honestly, that is not unsurprising - it happens more often than not. /J -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org