[WIKI]Re: A Thought On Clamming People's Fears of Wiki Editing

[Pasi Lallinaho]

On 14/02/14 18:49, John Kim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I agree that we need some mentors as well. Who would be interested in
> creating a mentioning page?

While I do agree that we need mentors, I'm not sure if we should assign
specific mentors to new contributors. Since it seems there are enough
people willing to mentor, why wouldn't we simply encourage people to
join #ubuntu-doc (or write to the mailing list) ask ask away their
questions?

> The next important criteria for mentors is commitment and
> availability, so that both the mentors and their apprentices can help
> each other throughout the process. Mentorship should not be sporadic,
> but ideally last throughout an entire development cycle.

Mentorship that lasts throughout a cycle (or any other pre-specified
timeframe) can be a pro for the mentoring cycle, but as you implied, it
can be tough to find (enough) people who are willing to commit to help
one or two people for six months.

I, personally, am not willing to make such commitment at this point. On
the other hand, I'm usually quite active on IRC and always willing to
help people when they need a hand.

>
> Here is one good example of a page that lists out members.   We can
> model the idea around this page.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StartUbuntu/WhoAreWe
>
> John Kim
> Ubuntu Contributor
> www.launchpad.net/~kotux <http://www.launchpad.net/%7Ekotux>
> johnkim.ubuntu at gmail.com
>

Cheers,
Pasi

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