MOTU Mentors

[Micah J. Cowan]

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.

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Micah J. Cowan
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