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Re: mentoring guidelines

 

Hi, for those who missed it....


(21:10:48) mhall119: phillw: I think the guidelines belkinsa was talking
about was my suggestion of providing regular, public updates on what the
padawans are doing
(21:11:01) belkinsa: Oh, that!
(21:11:02) mhall119: to give some recognition to both master and student
(21:11:20) belkinsa: We could do that weekly or bi-weekly.
(21:11:30) phillw: mhall119: permission to speak freely?
(21:11:33) belkinsa: Or maybe monthly if both are busy.
(21:11:43) mhall119: phillw: it's your channel :)
(21:13:32) mhall119: belkinsa: it can even be a "post when we have
something to post" schedule
(21:13:42) mhall119: as long as the word is getting out and people see
what's happening
(21:13:52) belkinsa: Okay, I think that is better.
(21:14:03) belkinsa: Prehaps a wiki page with that could work.
(21:14:15) phillw: instead of 'council' type meetings, why not use the new
blog system so that a padawan and his / her master can say "Yup, learned
that bit, can no teach others" and update
http://wiki.linuxpadawan.net/AboutUs as they fulfill the the roll of being
able to mentor new people?
(21:14:46) phillw: s/no/now
(21:14:46) belkinsa: Okay, that works for me too.
(21:14:49) mhall119: phillw: agreed, using the new blog is the best/easiest
way
(21:15:43) belkinsa: Question: who will write the blog posts, both masters
and padawans?
(21:15:50) phillw: any objections?
(21:15:54) mhall119: it's syndicated to planet.ubuntu.com now, is there
anybody who can get it on other planets, like debian, fedora or gnome?
(21:16:10) belkinsa: I can't, only for Ubuntu.
(21:16:15) zleap: sounds a good plan
(21:16:20) silverlion: belkinsa : I'd say padawans
(21:16:28) phillw: belkinsa: it will the master who states that the padawan
has passed :)
(21:16:30) silverlion: that way the masters don't have to much extra work
(21:16:44) belkinsa: I think we need a vote here.
(21:16:51) belkinsa: Or maybe mhall119's word.
(21:17:01) phillw: #startmeeting
(21:17:02) Meetingbot: Meeting started Fri Jan 9 21:17:02 2015 UTC. The
chair is phillw. Information about MeetBot at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.
(21:17:15) belkinsa: #vote Masters should post
(21:17:29) belkinsa: #voters phillw silverlion mhall119 belkinsa
(21:17:34) belkinsa: o.O
(21:17:38) phillw: #vote do masters should approve padawans
(21:17:39) Meetingbot: Please vote on: do masters should approve padawans
(21:17:39) Meetingbot: Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or
-1 in channel, (for private voting, private message me with 'vote +1/-1/+0
#channelname)
(21:17:39) mhall119: I'll abstain, I'm just here to help :)
(21:17:49) mhall119: +0
(21:17:49) Meetingbot: +0 received from mhall119
(21:17:55) zleap: Good idea
(21:17:57) silverlion: -1
(21:17:57) Meetingbot: -1 received from silverlion
(21:18:00) phillw: +1
(21:18:01) Meetingbot: +1 received from phillw
(21:18:02) belkinsa: +1
(21:18:03) Meetingbot: +1 received from belkinsa
(21:18:04) zleap: to this, if I get time however
(21:18:05) wxl: +1
(21:18:05) Meetingbot: +1 received from wxl
(21:18:09) zleap: +1
(21:18:09) Meetingbot: +1 received from zleap
(21:18:18) MrChrisDruif: +1
(21:18:18) Meetingbot: +1 received from MrChrisDruif
(21:18:28) phillw: #endvote
(21:18:29) Meetingbot: Voting ended on: do masters should approve padawans
(21:18:29) Meetingbot: Votes for:5 Votes against:1 Abstentions:1
(21:18:29) Meetingbot: Motion carried
(21:18:46) phillw: #endmeeting
(21:18:47) Meetingbot: Meeting ended Fri Jan 9 21:18:47 2015 UTC.
(21:18:47) Meetingbot: Minutes:
http://phillw.net/meetbot/linuxpadawan/2015/linuxpadawan.2015-01-09-21.17.moin.txt

To further clarify,

(21:19:41) belkinsa: If we going to do this, I think we need to have style
guildlines to have it all the same in sytle.
(21:21:57) phillw: belkinsa: how it can simply work is that if you think
your padawan has passed what ever module they were learning, is to ask
another master. If one of my padawans wants to learn python and server, i
can sign him off for server... I cannot sign him off for python.
(21:22:28) zleap: ok
(21:22:34) belkinsa: Okay. That works.
(21:23:18) phillw: zleap: as it happens, he is our co-padawan :) But easy
way to explain it.

So, as a master, once you're confident that a padawan has reached the skill
set to be able to teach a new padawan, you sign them off on that task. They
can ten be added as a master[1].  That is not to say that they cannot come
back to you and ask for advice when they are stuck. Padawans are for life,
and every master has some one he or she asks for advice from every now and
then :)


Regards,

Phill.
1. http://wiki.linuxpadawan.net/AboutUs#Masters_and_Padawans




On 9 January 2015 at 21:30, Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Svetlana Belkin <belkinsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On 01/09/2015 04:23 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
>
> >> http://wiki.linuxpadawan.net/LinuxPadawan/MentoringGuidelines
> >> As you can see from that page, I don't think we have a clear plan for
> >> how we are to do [public updates]. What suggestions do you guys have? Do
> >> we just blog it?
> > We are blogging it.
>
> Considering the fact that our blog feed goes to Planet Ubuntu, I think
> that's a great way to recognize the successes we have had and
> otherwise advertise for the project.
>
> Considering every master probably doesn't have a blog account (do we
> want to make one for everyone?), should there be a blog team at
> /LinuxPadawan/AboutUs that would be the contact for making this
> happen? Or perhaps we should have a wiki page that masters can leave
> updates that the blog team could pull from?
>
> @wxl
>
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