Hi, Craig, Stream of consciousness answer, because reasons:
Does the mentorship team keep in touch with unmatched requestees, to ensure that they still want mentoring in the thing they requested? Especially when those requests go unanswered for long periods of time, leading to:
How long do requests stay "on the books"? Clearly, some of the requests are so specific that no one has the specific equipment / skill set to address the request, to reach out and help: for example, the person who has a network setup request involving a Raspberry Pi, a Juniper device, and a LAN tap.
Does the requestee get any feedback on the request? Initially? After a long period of the request laying fallow?
Once a request has been sent out to the mentoring list a few times, does it still qualify as "NEW", as every email claims? How about standalone emails for "New" requests, say three months old or less? And send a periodic "digest" email for all the unmatched requests older than that? I presume the mentoring list keeps sending those out in hopes that new mentors will join the list with the appropriate skills, or the amount of free time to commit.
These are questions that have rolled around in my head for a while now - thanks for providing a ladder to the soapbox.
best, Brian On 7/29/16 10:23 :42AM, Craig Constantine wrote:
The wheels turn slowly, but they do turn. The next step in the Mentorship Program rebuild project is to poll all the people who have any interest in the system asking for any input they’d care to share. I have some ideas of what the different groups (Board members, Mentors, Proteges) might want from the system, but I don't want to skew the results by giving any ideas or structure to this request. :) so... Anyone have any requests/desires/ideas/suggestions you'd care to share? -- Craig Constantine, http://constantine.name _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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