wiki mentoring

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi,

as one other person has pointed out that there is no real mentoring scheme
for people who wish to learn more about wiki stuff, before I had my burn
out I was proposing a classroom session after 13.10 to get the work done
advertised.

I'm still on "light duties", but my batteries are recharging. As such I'd
be happy to hold such a session which will, hopefully, remove the mistaken
view that you have to be 'a higher authority' to actually take part in
editing the wiki area and re-enforce the fact that "we were all complete
beginners once".

I know people are really busy with 13.10, but the beginners week starts
very soon after the release. Sergio, who has taken on TL for lubuntu
wiki/docs has a good knowledge already but wants to learn more. As Ubuntu
Beginners Team has ceased, it is for the teams themselves to work out a
mentor system. If we do not have such a system, how do we ask people to get
involved?

Having read the chats on 'manual', I'm sure the same applies. People move
on, yet we have no structure to either advertise for new people; but most
damning of all.. we have no structure to assist these people.

The excuse 'the few people we have cannot spend time with new comers' is
totally self defeating for any team - that leads to extinction, which is
not an option.

On this area, I cannot give my 10% estimation of success as I did on
icons... Failure is not an option.

I know you are all up to your eyeballs in work, but please take a few
minutes to reply here as to how this should be structured.

Thanks for taking the time to read through this email and my thoughts on
how we get more people involved.

Phill.

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