On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 15:54 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > This function seems missing this time around and though i'm happy to > > help out, lack of data about our progress hinders me a bit, and more > > eyes watching the channels to help guide the students to good > mentors is > > needed as well. How do we resolve this? > > Hrm. I don't think people should feel they have to ask before helping > students. Everybody should feel empowered to help students find > projects, mentors, etc. If we need to explicitly allow everyone to > help, > then something is deeply broken :-) > >
Hmm maybe I misworded this as your response is confusing to me :-) I'm not saying people need explicit permission and such. I'm saying we need to get the word out to everyone that even if you do/don't want to be a mentor (or think you can't qualify to be a mentor) you can still do your part by "being in the lobby and helping students who wander in and saying... oh let' me help you find someone that suits your needs." That's what I'm not seeing this time around when we had it in 2009. And in that case, it just seemed to happen naturally without any prodding of the community. Perhaps part of the reason is because there are more new participants to the project that still don't know who's who in order to direct someone to a potential mentor. I dunno. Ok I am out for a few hours. Thanks for your prompt reply, Vincent. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
