From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 30 08:13:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA28045 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 08:13:39 -0700 Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA28039 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 08:13:37 -0700 Received: from wcs.uq.edu.au (actually juno.wcs.uq.edu.au) by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au with SMTP (PP); Mon, 1 May 1995 01:13:26 +1000 Received: by wcs.uq.edu.au (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03853; Mon, 1 May 95 01:13:17 EST From: Gary Roberts Message-Id: <9504301513.AA03853@wcs.uq.edu.au> Subject: Status of the Mentoring Project To: hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 01:13:17 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1462 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just a brief report to those who are interested. I'm going to run a simple manual system while the programming gets done. I'm calling the people doing the helping `Mentors' and the people being helped `Mentees'. I have 4 files prepared. Two of them, mentor.announce and mentee.announce, are small and designed to attract the respective classes of people. I'll only release mentee.announce when I've got some more Mentors. At the moment I've got 25 or so. The other two files, mentor.info and mentee.info, are much more detailed and include `fill-in' forms so that Mentors and Mentees can be `matched' as much as possible. When I've thought about this a bit more, and my shrink tells me I'm not insane, I'll send all current Mentors a copy of mentor.info. I'll then go on a `catch some more Mentors' drive. Finally I'll open the flood-gates by releasing mentee.announce. Everyone who responds to that will get mentee.info. Once a Mentee sends in the `fill-in' form, I'll start pairing off Mentees with Mentors. If anyone who hasn't previously responded is willing to be a Mentor, send me some mail. If you've been asleep, don't know what I'm raving about and are stup^H^H^H^Hkeen enough to want to know, just ask. BTW, my e-mail address is slightly different to keep this separate from my `real' work :->. Grumbles, complaints, offers of help, willing code hackers - all offers courteously received. Cheers, -- Gary Roberts (garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au)