Re: GOP-PROP 2: mentors and Frogs

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 08:56:54AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> 1)  Geographical proximity helps big time.  I know that, in a 30ish minute 
> face-to-face conversation with Bertrand Bordage, I was able to work through 
> what would otherwise take up to a week over e-mail.

Absolutely!  Failing that, sharing the same language and/or
country and/or time zone (or sleep cycle, for those who refuse to
submit to the tyranny of the sun ;) can help.

I could imagine that some contributor-mentor pairs could meet up
in a cafe in Paris once a month, or have a weekly 30-minute phone
call (or skype session), or at least have weekly "how are you
doing" emails.

> 2)  Many-a-university have open-source-upkeep CS (or music in
> centers like CCRMA) courses (i.e. "Case studies in advanced
> algorithmic auto-reglation of white space inconsistencies").

Meh, I don't care about recruiting people.  At least, as far as
I'm concerned, that's not the point of this proposal.  I think we
need *much* more of a culture of mentorship before we could
honestly approach one of those programs (or even just google
code!) for new contributors.

Cheers,
- Graham