Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 21:10:00 -0600 From: Damien Tougas <dtougas@converging.net> To: Young <young@richardson.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program Message-ID: <19990826211000.A14919@converging.net> In-Reply-To: <00a001bef00d$76fbb100$857e03cb@jdy>; from Young on Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 07:53:40AM %2B1000 References: <00a001bef00d$76fbb100$857e03cb@jdy>
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> Another thought .... from my recent experience trying to sort out a > few weird PPP problems, the completely differing responses > can be confusing .... the "adopt a newbie" concept would help > to minimize this stuff if every newbie had a sorta mentor who > was respnsible for sourcing answers, but is it likely that many > experts could spare the time that may be needed to fulfil this role ?? > > It would be really nice if it were possible .....will have to wait to see > what, if any, responses come on the subject from experts reading > this thread I guess I think that more than just FreeBSD experts could participate in a program such as this. I was thinking that all that is really required is somthing to get people on to their feet, offering guidance in areas that even a novice is quite familiar with. After reading some of the posts lately, there seems to be a bit of confusion on some of the basics (i.e. I seem to remember a post with regards to someone not being able to figure out how to use thier cdrom etc.). This stuff is not rocket science, and thus does not require the attention of an expert, but is still quite foreign to someone who may be coming straight from a Microsoft environment. I think that as more and more people hear about free operating systems, there will be more people using FreeBSD who have absolutely no experience with UNIX whatsoever. I thought that a short term mentor program might be a good idea, but there are defenitely other ways to accomplish this, such as with beginner level documentation. If people were interested in a mentoring type of thing, there is no reason that anyone couldn't be a mentor, as long as you are within your comfort zone. -- 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
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