MOTU Mentors

[Jordan Mantha]

Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:22:41PM -0700, Jordan Mantha wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>    As a part of the EasierMotuing push Daniel added a MOTU Mentoring 
>> page [1] to the MOTU wiki. The idea with this program is to get people 
>> who aren't familiar with our communication tools (IRC, mailing lists, 
>> launchpad) and team structure (who are the MOTUs and what things can 
>> MOTU Hopefuls do, etc.). It is "initial" mentoring and is not designed 
>> to provide one-on-one teaching of packaging. We will be starting up the 
>> MOTU School again for that kind of thing.
>>
>>    On thing that I changed was instead of having a column for 
>> Availability (which was basically populated with variants of "busy") in 
>> the mentor list I put a column for how many people the mentor is willing 
>> to take. dholbach, crimsun, siretart, Gloubiboulga, slomo, and raphink 
>> can you guys please update the Mentors page accordingly with your info? 
>> Any other MOTUs that want to help out are certainly welcome to.
>>
>> -Jordan Mantha
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Mentors
> 
> Hi. From the above description, and the linked web page, it's still not
> at all clear to me exactly what the Mentoring consists of.
> 
> I'm _guessing_ that it's not simply teaching someone how to use IRC,
> email clients, and a bug-tracking website... could you fill in a little
> more detail about what will be covered?
> 
> Obviously, I'm new here, but I'm already using the mailing lists, and
> have used launchpad regarding a bug I'd encountered
> (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/joystick/+bug/45930 - at
> the bottom). No IRC yet, but maybe I'll add that when I feel I could
> give it proper attention.
> 
> As to some of the details of team structure, etc., I could certainly be
> more informed; however, I expect to learn it through continued
> participation on this list.
> 

Good points, I've revamped the wiki page a bit. I've also replaced the 
"open slots" column with a "active MOTU areas". I think trying to 
determine availability is perhaps not a good idea (we would have to 
update it often to be useful). Any suggestions for other useful 
info/features?

-Jordan Mantha