the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Erinn Clark
Hey everyone, So, we have a bunch of people showing renewed interest in the mentoring program (http://women.debian.org/mentoring/). The problem is that the mentors list is extremely out of date. I suspect there are still plenty of people who would like to mentor and I can vouch for the fact that

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Runa Sandvik
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Erinn Clark wrote: > Hey everyone, Hey :) > - Someone to help me run it. If you have better ideas about how to run >  it, I am listening. I think sometimes new people are afraid to step in >  and try to take over things, but you don't have to be -- even though >

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/9/23 Runa Sandvik : > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Erinn Clark wrote: >> Hey everyone, > > Hey :) > >> - Someone to help me run it. If you have better ideas about how to run >>  it, I am listening. I think sometimes new people are afraid to step in >>  and try to take over things, but you

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Erinn Clark
* Runa Sandvik [2009:09:23 19:49 +0200]: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Erinn Clark wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > Hey :) > > > - Someone to help me run it. If you have better ideas about how to run > >  it, I am listening. I think sometimes new people are afraid to step in > >  and try to t

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/9/23 Erinn Clark : > * Runa Sandvik [2009:09:23 19:49 +0200]: >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Erinn Clark wrote: >> > Hey everyone, >> >> Hey :) >> >> > - Someone to help me run it. If you have better ideas about how to run >> >  it, I am listening. I think sometimes new people are afrai

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Runa Sandvik
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Lesley Binks wrote: > No disrespect - probably okay between two people but tricky when the > work is more distributed. > Ideal db thing perhaps?  I could run something up on postgresql or > MySQL and we could use > some kind of web interface to manage and work on i

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Erinn Clark wrote: > If you have better ideas about how to run >  it, I am listening. I gave a talk at my local LUG on Monday about increasing involvement in F/OSS (across the board, not just women), and in response one of the folks on the list posted this: "Men

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
[this is really a shameless plug, but here goes] I'd like to draw the attention of mentors to wnpp-by-tags as the place to point aspiring packagers that don't know where to start. wnpp-by-tags helps one to match their interests/skills in terms of debtag facets. For instance, one that's interested

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Ana Guerrero
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:11:48PM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > [this is really a shameless plug, but here goes] > > I'd like to draw the attention of mentors to wnpp-by-tags as the place to > point aspiring packagers that don't know where to start. wnpp-by-tags helps > one to match their in

Re: the mentoring program

2009-09-23 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:22:16PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:11:48PM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > [this is really a shameless plug, but here goes] > > I'd like to draw the attention of mentors to wnpp-by-tags as the place to [..] > > It would be nice combine t