[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris mentoring program...

[elw at stderr.org]

>> 1) How to build a pool of experienced people?  Just ask for volunteers?
>
> We have some experience teaming up people in the request-sponsor program 
> and the Google Summer of Code program. So at least we may have some 
> models to discuss as we figure this out. I think it would require 
> someone to go out and get people involved after we have a shell of a 
> program outline. We have a lot of lists, communities, projects, and user 
> groups now, so it would take some legwork to build a pool of mentors. 
> But there's no reason why we couldn't start small and build up and out.

Excellent points.

>>     great to have a few more people triaging out bugs that are
>>     "newbie-friendly" and just require legwork or simple fixes/updates
>
> More bite size bugs and more people involved? 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/participation/ That would be 
> really, really excellent.

Yes - I think it generates a win-win, both for the community and for the 
new developers who're brought to the table and engaged in the larger 
process.

--elijah