From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 12 12:43: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4557637B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:43:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2CKgSA86080; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:42:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010310230724.A292@sprig.tougas.net> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:42:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Damien Tougas Subject: RE: Looking for Yoda Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 11-Mar-01 Damien Tougas wrote: > Are there any mentors out there? Are there other approaches out there > that people have taken that they have found successful? There might be, but I have one suggestion for you: Find someone geographically close by that you can meet with face to face. Trying to teach/mentor over IRC or e-mail is just too painful IMO. Face to face contact is much more efficient and results in a lot less misunderstandings, etc. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message