From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 12: 8:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2DA153E4 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:08:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbettle@criterion-group.com) Received: from criterion-group.com ([24.5.44.161]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990826190748.DSCR7447.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@criterion-group.com>; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:07:48 -0700 Message-ID: <37C5919B.3D917F09@criterion-group.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:12:27 -0700 From: Roy Bettle X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Damien Tougas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program References: <19990826130851.A13307@converging.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wow! As a struggling newbie from "Micro$haft Land", I would love to be a part of a progam like this. I would finally be able to figure out my NAT+@Home cable modem issues ... RAB Damien Tougas wrote: > Hello FreeBSD Gurus, > > I just had an idea. What would people think of starting an 'Adopt > a Newbie Program' where volunteers can hold the hand of a newbie > as they trudge up the FreeBSD learning curve? Volunteers could > be signed up with a list of their skills or areas of expertise, and > matched with a newbie who will have similar requirements. Not all > newbies will want the same thing, and not all Gurus have the same > areas of expertise, so some sort of matching would probably be a > good thing. Certain things would have to be in place so that > the Gurus would only take on as many newbies as they wanted at > any given time etc. > > Just a thought, I'm sure there are lots of issues involved in > creating somthing like this. > > -- > Damien Tougas > Converging Technology Solutions, Inc. > Phone: (780)469-1679 > Fax: (780)461-5127 > E-mail: dtougas@converging.net > http://www.converging.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- RAB Roy Bettle President, Criterion Group http://www.criterion-group.com rbettle@criterion-group.com (949) 452-1203 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message