[vox-tech] Re: [vox-tech]Talks, mentoring, etc... was Touble(sic) with Printer Set-up (long)

[Rusty Minden]

I have an interest in mentoring both to mentor and be mentored. I would be 
willing to take on some responsibilities for this IF their is interest from 
the group.

My questions would be:
1	Who is interested.
2	When would you like to meet.
3	Would we want to set up interest paths (just an idea) like Perl, bash, vi, 
C, C++, Administrator tasks, etc. This would allow a person to Mentor in an 
area that they are confident in and be mentored in a area that they want to 
improve.
4	What are the limits. If I were to mentor someone, I know that they would be 
calling on me frequently for help and I would meet with them to go over 
questions, but there has to be a limit.
5	Once you have been menotred you should be expected to mentor another. If 
your interest is in LINUX/UNIX Administration once you have a grasp of 
Administration you should be able to mentor another this also has the benefit 
of helping you to learn more. If you have ever had an opportunity to teach a 
subject you will find that you will know it better becouse of the opportunity 
of teaching it.

Rusty

On Friday 12 April 2002 10:29 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> begin Stephen M. Helms <Mytho_X@pacbell.net>
>
> > {snipage}
> >
> > > someone please put me out of my misery and do a talk about cups and
> > > lprng at lugod!!
> > >
> > > pete
> >
> > Maybe we could even have a group mentoring project?  Something like an
> > online email class or over irc even.  Where we have a couple of
> > experienced (seasoned) people teaching less experienced people.  The
> > test could be that the student(s) later give a talk to reinforce what
> > they have learned.
>
> i like this idea, but the bottleneck is getting someone to volunteer the
> teaching.  organizing the thing and coming up with volunteers would be
> the thing that kills this idea.
>
> i think this was the point of the 10-20 minute talk thing i wanted to do
> at lugod meetings.  we had a few of them.  maybe we should start to make
> them an integral part of the lugod meeting.  i can certainly do this
> bill.  it's easier to ask someone to talk for 10 minutes than for 1.5
> hours.  :)
>
> i think 10-20 minutes is short enough that the prep time is pretty nill.
> 10 minutes goes by very quickly when giving a talk.
>
> i can give a 10 minute talk on marks and registers in vi which would be
> a nice complement to verbus's presentation.  i can also give a 10 minute
> talk on using strace, although mike would be more suited for this.  i
> don't know quite as much about strace as mike, but i definitely know
> enough for it to be useful for me.  i just used it last night to figure
> out where quakeforge was looking for the pak0.pak and pak1.pak files.
> strace comes in handy for me about once a week, and is an integral part
> of my kung-fu.
>
> pete
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