From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T07:48:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Adopt-a-newbie? Based on actual experience.

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But of course!

This doesn't come to rid the list of discussions.

This comes to allow discussion on smaller details in a more comfortable
manner.

You know... Like when you ask the programmer next to you something over his
shoulder while he is programming.


It also comes to have someone the newb can discuss program design with, as
that is something that is hard to embody in a single list question.


Having one person familiar with what you are doing is sometimes superior to
having ten experts, especially if they have other things to do.


Of course, interesting discussions should still go to ruby-talk. And if I'm
predicting correctly, this will spawn MANY interesting discussions (as that
is what cognitive resonance does).

On 2/15/07, Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> wrote:
>
> SonOfLilit wrote:
> > All of this has brought me to think of an Adopt-a-newbie model. [...]
> > 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 very much like the idea, but I would like to mitigate a little the
> points of view given so far. True enough, some newbie questions are
> recurring and sometimes a little heavy on the list. But it often happens
> that a newbie question triggers a whole bunch of completely different
> answers on the list - and I've learned many tricks from 'newbie'
> questions, though I hardly consider myself a newbie anymore. That would
> be a pity to deprive ruby-talk reader from this interesting threads.
>
>   To prevent that, why not change slightly the role of the 'mentor' : if
> I understand right, an important part of the problem is about
> self-censorship. So if the 'mentor' could act as a 'censor' (sorry, my
> English is not that great and I can't come up with a more neutral term)
> and redirect the newbie to the list when he/she thinks that it is likely
> to trigger a rich thread ?
>
>   Just my 2 cents...
>
>         Vince
>
> --
> Vincent Fourmond, PhD student (not for long anymore)
> http://vincent.fourmond.neuf.fr/
>
>

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