[advocacy-discuss] Proposal for OpenSolaris Mentoring Program

[Martin Bochnig]

Brandorr wrote:
> Proposal for OpenSolaris Mentoring Program
>
> Purpose: To expand the OpenSolaris community through a mentoring
> program that pairs      senior community members with junior community
> members and students.
>
> List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
>      Advocacy Community Group
>
> List of project team members:
>      Brian Gupta(O.S. id: brandorr), primary contact
>      Elijah Wright(O.S. id: Elijah), alternate contact
>      Jim Grisanzo(O.S. id: jimgris)
>      Fauzia Saeed(O.S. id: foz)
>      Rob Giltrap(O.S. id: thermo)
>
> Project Description: To pair Senior developers and sysadmins with
> junior developers and sysadmins to learn various aspects of OS
> development and adminsistration. We would do outreach to university
> compsci programs. (this doesn't exclude non-students as mentees)
>
> The desire is to expand the community of OpenSolaris developers and
> admins, which will help in the long run goal of building a
> self-sufficient community. Currently there are domain experts, that
> have the knowledge to do certain rare skills, being able to leverage
> these domain experts in this mentoring program would eventually remove
> these gates roles, and allow faster development as a whole. Hopefully
> we will be able to leverage experiences from the GSoC (Google Summer
> of Code) Mentoring facilitators.
>
> Project Needs: This project requires project space on OpenSolaris.org
> site. The project also requires a mailing list. Suggested list name is
> mentoring at opensolaris dot org.
>
> Thanks for your consideration,
>   

Thanks for your work.
Please register a (virtual/online) sample lesson/course/class for me.
I'm looking forward to getting a refresh in all that dry admin 
theory.     8-)

%martin

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