My first suggestion is to create a project of Mentors, as a subproject of ComRes and coprojects with Recruiters and Comrel. Then it could assume a place on irc using #gentoo-mentors. And possibly a grouping created for them on the forums?
Mentor wannabes who wanna help out would join the project as members and thus advertise their availability for wannabe devs in search of mentors. Right now, the biggest weakness I see is a lack of organized visibility. Having it as an official project, with a member list, would make potential mentors much easier to find. On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Andy Mender <andymenderu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have also heard of the concept of Gentoo mentors in the past, though it > didn't seem like anyone is specifically involved. I think it would be a > nice initiative, but of course specifics then need to be drafted. For > instance, should it be irc based, forum based or both? What would be the > incentive for mentor-wannabes? Etc. > > Best regards, > Andy Mender > > On 27 Sep 2016 17:22, "Raymond Jennings" <shent...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm just wondering, is there a project meant to act as a team of mentors, >> ready to take on new recruits? >> >> Points: >> >> * I haven't noticed an official grouping of any sort that organizes >> potential mentors into a cohesive group >> >> * I noticed the #gentoo-mentors channel. It appears to be registered, >> and is occupied by ChanServ, but nobody (op or otherwise) is in it. >> >> I've also had some trouble in the past during my devhood journey. A lot >> of it is my fault for being waylaid by RL drama, but my two previous >> mentors had to resign due to their own RL takedowns, and it "sure would be >> nice" if there were a labelled team I could approach. >> >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Recruiters/Mentoring has >> instructions for mentors, but I don't see any project/subproject on Google >> specifically meant to organize. >> >> Would it benefit gentoo to have "mentors" as an official project, >> possibly as a comres subproject? >> >>
