<div style="DIRECTION: ltr">dear all, i also feel the same , that mentors are ready but not the mentees , i feel why dont we all join together and work out some thing in the mean time. I am ready for the proposal of one hour IRc ..... </div> <div style="DIRECTION: ltr"> </div> <div style="DIRECTION: ltr"> </div> <div style="DIRECTION: ltr"> Also as rahul told we can have a written proposals of sought to have a committee and try to find out to expand the fedora core . cheers , SRC </div> <div>On 3/8/06, Rahul Sundaram <<a href="mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org">sundaram@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Runa Bhattacharjee wrote: > > > Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > Hi, > >> So this list has been basically empty this year -- no posts so far in >> all >> of 2006. Which is a shame; it's an idea with potential. >> >> Why hasn't it succeeded? My idea: I don't think people know what is >> asked of them, as mentors. >> >> >> > I personally do not know what exactly is expected of me as a mentor. > To recount an incident, the other day someone popped into > #fedora-mentors irc channel looking for help. He said that **he wanted > to contribute**. I had to keep questioning him to fully understand his > area of interest and then I directed him to the other appropriate > channels where he could find people of similar interest as I was not > in a position to answer all his questions. We basically have this as a FAQ in <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ</a> which leads to <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HelpWanted"> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HelpWanted</a>. Now its upto to the different project people to come up with a introductory kit for both the mentors and the mentees. An hour a week or so is not a problem but we all need more guidelines preferably in written form. My profile at <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram</a>. -- Rahul -- Fedora-mentors-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-mentors-list@redhat.com"> Fedora-mentors-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mentors-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mentors-list</a> </blockquote></div>