-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 3, 2009, at 7:57 AM, Steve Holden wrote:
In the old days this would have happened by a process known in the British training world as "sitting with Nellie" - doing the work next to, and directly supervised by, someone who had been doing it a long time and who knew all the wrinkles of the job. Quite how to achieve a similar effect in today's distributed development environment is less obvious.
Could we talk about this at PyCon (as well as continuing this thread to some sort of conclusion)? While the sprints are great for those who are already involved some activity specifically targeted at new developers would be a welcome addition, and might even help recruit them.
I think this is a great idea. I would like to see a more formal mentoring process. As a community I think we need a constant source of fresh blood, and mentoring is a great way to shepherd those new recruits to full commit privileges. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSV+v0XEjvBPtnXfVAQIUsAP/aAO7ykXaSP/mA6Cs2874vYIHWZnzYnJx +hyv2i0A65Td9FX2+Jno/TtXLamnU7qC+gqOvf+bkPKyV1T0SlInm0ZXPa0hcNou tKCN0xQCSpKIKnSWMI1VFapHyTUHneDvwY6AHh3mK77MLWdZBK1GTr3Pp10D+5Tj eH9b93mBehY= =xJml -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----