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Josh,

I agree that the mailing list is a hard place to provide such guidance
and direction.  I find mailing lists intimidating.  Had taken me some
time to be comfortable submitting here.

After my response to this note the other day I was pinged internally via
our messaging client asking for some mentoring.  They seemed more
comfortable introducing themselves that way and talking.  I hate to
suggest an IRC channel for this, as IRC drives me nuts, also doesn't
seem the best fit.  Maybe instead a wiki page with IRC names of people
that are willing to be individually contacted with requests for
guidance.  I could be listed as a contact for Cinder or i18n as well as
a general process contact.  You for taskflow, etc.

I guess a way to communicate what we feel we can help with and provide
that as a resource for those who may need help in those areas.  Also, on
the same wiki maybe try to cull together some of the 'getting started
info.  

What do you think?

Jay

On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 15:42 -0700, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> Awesome,
> 
> 
> When I start to see emails on ML that say anyone need any help for
> XYZ ... (which is great btw) it makes me feel like there should be a
> more appropriate avenue for those inspirational folks looking to get
> involved (a ML isn't really the best place for this kind of guidance
> and directing). 
> 
> 
> And in general mentoring will help all involved if we all do more of
> it :-)
> 
> 
> Let me know if any thing is needed that I can possible help with to
> get more of it going.
> 
> 
> -Josh
> 
> On Jul 23, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Jay Bryant
> <jsbryant at electronicjungle.net> wrote:
> 
> > Great question Josh!
> > 
> > Have been doing a lot of mentoring within IBM for OpenStack and have
> > now been asked to formalize some of that work.  Not surprised there
> > is an external need as well.
> > 
> > Anne and Stefano.  Let me know if the kids anything I can do to
> > help.
> > 
> > Jay
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I was reading over a IMHO insightful hacker news thread last night:
> > 
> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8068547
> > 
> > Labeled/titled: 'I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can do it too'
> > 
> > It made me wonder what kind of mentoring support are we as a
> > community offering to newbies (a random google search for 'openstack
> > mentoring' shows mentors for GSoC, mentors for interns, outreach for
> > women... but no mention of mentors as a way for everyone to get
> > involved)?
> > 
> > Looking at the comments in that hacker news thread, the article
> > itself it seems like mentoring is stressed over and over as the way
> > to get involved.
> > 
> > Has there been ongoing efforts to establish such a program (I know
> > there is training work that has been worked on, but that's not
> > exactly the same).
> > 
> > Thoughts, comments...?
> > 
> > -Josh
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