From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-02-19T20:13:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Adopt-a-newbie? Based on actual experience.

Quoting Peter Szinek:
"Hello Aur,

Yeah, I think we are really doing fine. We wrote nearly 10 mails
already, and since my wife happens to be a Ruby newbie too, I just set
up a mailing list for the tree of us and I think everybody is enjoying
the whole thing a lot.

Thanks for the great idea! I hope the others are doing well, too.

Shalom,

Peter"


I must say I'm proud.

I also like the idea of working in groups of three. Why? Because three
people generate so little traffic that one can easily follow it
without feeling any burden, and listening to the problems of one
fellow newbie and their solutions can advance one a lot. A group of
three would also still feel personal, unlike a ML.

It's the same reason I subscribe to many low-traffic blogs but almost
never to high traffic ones. I don't have time for a whole lot of
traffic (e.g. reading everything in the ruby mailing list) but I can
afford reading a short post every two weeks that would teach me
something nifty.

This should be handled, however, by the mentors, if and when they
decide they want to do it this way. There's no need, currently, for
infrastructure to handle this.


Aur