Fwd: [Motu-mentoring-reception] Minutes of the Meeting of the Motu Mentoring Reception of the 31/07/2007

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday 01 August 2008 09:19, Cesare Tirabassi wrote:
...
> 3. Recruitment of new mentors
> ====================
> How to recruit more mentors ? Right now norsetto is contacting every
> new u-u-c and MOTU explaining them the mentoring process. nhandler
> proposes to introduce a kind of reward/privilege for mentors, but
> norsetto and huats wonder about its do-ability (shirts ?)
> It has been pointed out that mentoring is considered a credit for motuship
> or for core dev application.
> Anyway mentoring should not be compulsory, and is up to the will of
> concerned persons if and how they would like to help contributors.

A small point:

I think that mentoring with a small 'm' is a good thing to consider for 
motu/core-dev.  I don't think if someone has filled out the paperwork to get 
formally assigned to help someone so they can Mentor with a big 'M' is 
relevant.

Scott K