From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T05:22:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Adopt-a-newbie? Based on actual experience.

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Well, to potential adoptees we can only offer the service...

But I think many would gladly accept.


Aur Saraf

On 2/14/07, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:03:16AM +0900, SonOfLilit wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Remember Samantha? She dropped by the list a while ago and was given the
> > idea to develop a Rails resume generator...
> >
> > Anyway, yesterday she happened to email me about the Haifa RUG post
> (only
> > reply this far and it was a false :/ ) and I happened to remember her
> > project and give her a bit of advice, and it developed into a
> conversation
> > reminding a bit of a chat about her project, that seems to have pulled
> her
> > out of a stuck position (I hope).
> >
> > Well, she told me she's glad she can email me those questions since
> sending
> > them to the list would be overkill and uncomfortable...
> >
> > Now, remember the recent discussion about newbie questions plaguing the
> > list?
> >
> > All of this has brought me to think of an Adopt-a-newbie model. Somehow,
> > every newbie that wants would get an email address of a volunteer from
> > ruby-talk, with whom he can correspond personally and who will answer
> his
> > basic questions and serve to also encourage him to keep learning.
> >
> > I could manage two-three active newbies at a time, I think, and they
> would
> > greatly benefit from it if they are anything like me.
> >
> >
> > What do you think? Would you consider it a good idea? Would you
> volunteer?
> > Is anyone up for infrastructure (preferrably on ruby-lang.org, though
> > anywhere is good)?
> >
> I would be interested, but I think it would depend on the adoptee not
> just the adopter. I would not want to end up being the fount of
> knowledge and turn into a crutch for the adopted person.
> >
> >
> > Aur Saraf
>
>

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