mentors March 2006

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MENTORS: some feedback, please. :)
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

All, I've created a draft of a new mentors page. A little simpler, with contact information more readily available. Please take a look and let me know what you think: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MentorsVersionTwo I also introduce here the notion of "rave reviews". Yes, I realize that any "rating system" can be gamed, but I think it's important that people who give their time as mentors have the opportunity to be recognized. In any event, whatever we decide we'd like the Mentors pages to look like, I think it's time to: 1. Verify that everyone on the mentors page still wants to be a mentor, so that we have a solid base we can count on. 2. Start advertising the presence of the mentors page heavily. Mairin put together a great mockup for something we could put in the nav bar; I'd like to implement that, or something similar. 3. Start recruiting heavily for new mentors, with a focus on expanding the areas of expertise for mentoring. More translation/localization mentors, more international members, more free Java mentors, more mentors generally. Just some ideas. I'd love to move forward with them, but only if you all think the changes are useful. --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors -------------------------------------------------------------

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No Internet in FC 5 (fwd)
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Does anyone want to help this poor soul out? --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:28:41 -0700 From: Ben Bullard <benny.bullard(a)gmail.com> To: Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk(a)fedoraproject.org> Subject: No Internet in FC 5 Greg DeKoenigsberg, My handle on the Fedora Forum [and others] is Red Knuckles [benny.bullard(a)gmail.com]. I installed FC 5 on a Linux multiboot [Suse 10.0 and Ubuntu 5.10] 6 days ago. My problem is that I can't access the Internet. Oddly I ran FC 3 and FC 4 on the same machine with no such problem. I posted this under title "No Internet in FC 5" in the Fedora Forum and every other forum I could find that covered Fedora. I only got replies on the Fedora Forum and LinuxQuestions.org and tried everything suggested. Also my Linux users group [lugoj(a)lugoj.org]. I'm getting desperate and don't know where to turn to for help. Can you help or point me in another direction? I tried to file a bug report on Bugzilla but I'm to much of a newbie to figure it out [don't understand the jargon]. -- Thanks, Newbie, ben bullard

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Re-introduction, re-launch, comments?
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

So this list has been basically empty this year -- no posts so far in all of 2006. Which is a shame; it's an idea with potential. Why hasn't it succeeded? My idea: I don't think people know what is asked of them, as mentors. Let me make a proposal, and see what you guys think of it. === The Fedora Mentors program is a way of *guaranteeing* real-time, meaningful, specific help to people who come to IRC to ask for it. How can we do that? Simple: every Approved Fedora Mentor (tm) pledges to spend one hour a week, every week, on IRC. Just one hour -- but that hour is advertised heavily. As in, posted to the wiki, and as the title of the #fedora channel on freenode, and sent to all the Fedora forums. The Mentors would be the Go To People for newbies in the Fedora project. Each Approved Fedora Mentor (tm) must have deep experience in at least one of the Fedora projects or SIGs (special interest groups). Over time, we'd be sending LOTS of people here. Imagine: college students worldwide, looking for help on projects. Business people, looking to prove that open source is right for them. One hour a week. Maybe it's just trolling Google to help people who can't help themselves; maybe it's patiently explaining how to burn Fedora CDs for someone who's using Windows. Maybe it's troubleshooting NetworkManager for the zillionth time. Maybe it's explaining the internals of the Extras build system. The most important thing, though: for that one hour, the Mentors are GUARANTEED to be there. Backed up by Fedora's good name. Is one hour a week worth it? Can you do it? Can you commit to it? I'd love to hear your thoughts. --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors -------------------------------------------------------------

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Hacking for Christ: Summer Of Code - Six Months On
by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 None of the ten projects shows any sign whatsoever of work having continued after the SoC deadline. Not one. No development-related mailing list traffic, no releases, nothing. It's as if the people vanished off the face of the earth on September 2nd. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2006/03/summer_of_code_six_mon… - -> Something that one needs to guard against. - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEH4/YXQZpNTcrCzMRAqFfAKC8v/LM+8VER87q//1xNXCYn6YsmACffBMB O696kSPFHZndSsq6bzMo8As= =5Jus -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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A member's proposal
by yzzorro 07 Mar '06

07 Mar '06

All administrators: Firstly, i want to say that i love fedora project and i am willing to do something for Fedora Project. it is proud of me to be a contributor to redhat, i am waitting for that, but until now i do not get a chance. I hear from your letters that you find you do not obtain any success in this Fedora-mentors -list project, i think a new thing needs some time to be accepted by most people. Do not lose patience! More and More people will support you. Wait For Chance! --g -- Image Forever, Challenge Forever !

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