Mentoring Systems Within the Community

[Elfy]

On 12/12/14 17:36, José Antonio Rey wrote:
> Mentoring contributors in the community is a system that has failed in
> the last two or three years. And you may be asking why.
>
> It is so simple to find instructions or guides, that contributors do no
> longer need mentors to join things or do stuff. And teams are open for
> everyone.
>
> The UBT died since people did not see the need for mentors anymore. The
> chatter we had on the team was either someone frustrated that 'they
> didn't listen in #ubuntu', or old mentors/contributors that came to chat
> for a bit.
>
> Charles, Elfy, or anyone that's been part of the UBT - I'd like to hear
> your input with regards to this.
UBT in it's early days served to bring people from the forums out to the 
wider community.

It's a fact that many of those involved with UBT in the early days did 
move into leadership positions on the forum as well - I did and I could 
probably name handfuls of others.

Some of them are now also in other leadership positions within the 
community, I'm in the CC, so is Charles Profitt, s.fox is on the 
Membership Board.

As Jose says - it just fizzled out - personally I'd already left when 
that happened.

But a lot of good people got mentoring through it.

It certainly didn't fade away because it had a council - it had one of 
those 6 years ago, long before it finished.
> On 12/12/2014 12:31 PM, Svetlana Belkin wrote:
>> On 12/12/2014 12:28 PM, José Antonio Rey wrote:
>>> As I see it, Linux Padawan is to assist new *users* and not
>>> contributors. So, what are you focusing on here? End-users or
>>> contributors? Please clarify.
>> It's mentoring for anyone.  We only have one mentor that deals with
>> contributors, which is me.  We are still new and we have room to grow
>> and get more mentors for the different fields.