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[James Westby <jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 23:38:36 -0600, Nathan Handler <nhandler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> One of the hardest parts about organizing a classroom session is
> finding people who are willing to lead a session. We often are forced
> to go to the same people over and over again. I would like to propose
> that instead of trying to recruit the older developers, we focus on
> recruiting new developers. For example, just like Daniel used to
> request new MOTUs to answer some questions for the Behind MOTU series,
> we could encourage them to lead a classroom session. These new
> developers have obviously been doing something in the community
> (otherwise they would not have become developers). They are probably
> capable of leading a session at some point during the next month or
> two (remember, we can change dates/times to work for them if
> necessary). Eventually, it will simply become the "norm" for new
> developers to lead a classroom session.
> 
> I am not saying we cannot still approach older developers, this is
> merely an idea to make it easier for us to find new people to lead
> classroom sessions (particularly packaging training sessions).
> 
> Any thoughts on this?

I think this sounds like a good way to go about this.

Thanks,

James