Well, we gotta carry around those badges anyway. If they are to be carried visibly you could indicate newcomer friendliness by giving the name or so a background colour, while "normal attendees" have something boring and "newcomer mentors" have something exclusive and exciting, in terms of colours ;).
But yeah, buttons will do as well. Though I tend to not see them. It should be easily visible especially if you're not already talking to the person. Sincerely, Lasse Schuirmann [email protected] http://coala-analyzer.org/ - http://viperdev.io/ - http://gitmate.com/ On 1 August 2016 at 14:13, Benjamin Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mo, 2016-08-01 at 12:44 +0200, Lasse Schuirmann wrote: >> At europython they had "Mentor" badges and made it publicly known >> that >> peope with those badges are at all times willing to answer every >> single question for newcomers. >> >> If it's not too late that could be printed with the rest on the >> attendee badges? > > We could also manually print another badge for some people. We also > have a 25mm button machine available which we could use for this > purpose. > > Benjamin > >> Sincerely, >> >> Lasse Schuirmann >> >> [email protected] >> http://coala-analyzer.org/ - http://viperdev.io/ - >> http://gitmate.com/ >> >> >> On 1 August 2016 at 11:35, Benjamin Berg <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have wondered a bit whether we could offer something that helps >> > new >> > or inexperienced community members to make friends at the >> > conference. >> > >> > I heard that in A Coruna there were some games where you had simple >> > tasks in the style of "Find a release team member and ask them …". >> > Another example would be here at university where the first year >> > students are generally split into groups of around 20 people and >> > spend >> > almost a week together doing different activities to help them >> > bond. >> > >> > I think it would be perfectly possible to organize something simple >> > even on a short notice. So if someone has an idea how we may help >> > individuals to e.g. start conversations with old community members, >> > to >> > go grab food with others, or to engage them in other ways then I >> > would >> > love to hear about it. >> > >> > We can provide some resources (e.g. printing or buying stuff), but >> > we >> > don't have the resources in the core team to fully plan such >> > activities. >> > >> > Benjamin >> > _______________________________________________ >> > engagement-list mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> guadec-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
