> > fully agreed; the only trick is, that newbies can only be helped by > > seasoned guns; seasoned guns don't stick around for long, unless there's > > continuing value for them, too. And we've seen the fading away of too > > many of the group's founding generation. It's a huge loss to the group > > and the question is, if we can get them back. I sure hope so. > > This I think I have to disagree with, the true newbies can often be helped > by someone who is not that far from complete newbie status themselves. > (Why are you all looking at me?) > Sometimes, a full blown guru is not what they need because he/she > can't get their head around the fact that said newbie doesn't understand > point A,B or C first. > Having said that, there are quite a few in this group who are capable of > explaining things at a very basic level as well and I thank you all for > your patience. > Anyway, my point was that a wide spread of skill levels is a good thing > and not all of us want to, or are able to attain true Guru status. > Not tot say we shouldn't keep trying. :) > Perhaps something we could look into is setting up a mentoring type program. It could consist of senior gurus, working with junior gurus to assit newbies and at the same timne developing their skills. An example would be, having a senior person working with a junior on the Apache workshop and having the junior and senior presenting it together.
I for one would welcome the chance to learn some system/network administration skills, applications, concepts, etc from those who are willing to share. ANd I mean going beyond the mailing list. But have a type of regitry listing gurus and there areas of expertise (i.e. Infrastucture hardware, Security Administration, etc.) adn have them work with a couple people to bring them along. I think that something like that would ultimately benefit everyone, by showing people that we arent just a bunch of hackersand geeks but a network of IT professionals, who can deal with just about anything...but with a penchant for Linux and FLOSS products. My douse centavos worth! _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
