Re: to Moray: encourage teams to take interns
On 2013-03-12 09:45, Charles Plessy wrote:
I have a question: could you comment on the differences,
complementarity, or
overlap between such an internship and the NM process, which already
has
extensive questions about packaging. My personal experience is that
when I
went through the NM process I learned a lot through the exchanges
with my AM,
to the point that I felt it close to be a "kind of internship
sheme"...
I agree that often in the NM process there is a form of mentoring. We
also have packaging mentoring through debian-mentors. In addition, we
already have existing structured schemes in Debian like
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/MoM and
http://www.debian.org/women/mentoring besides of course GSoC.
For the NM process itself, though, I would note that over the years
Front Desk have tended to increase how ready they would like people to
be before starting. The ideal in the NM process is seen to be that
someone is already clearly ready to be a Debian member, and that the
process is just a formality. And that's not just a recent change --
back when I was first an AM, it was recognised that some applicants
wanted the process to be much more of a mentoring one than it was -- in
some cases, people hope they can apply for membership without knowing at
all yet what they want to do in Debian, and be guided into an
appropriate role.
Even if we made the NM process more heavily a mentoring scheme, it
would still only help people who are at the specific stage of trying to
become a Debian member. The "internships" I have in mind are more
general:
- They could work for people not ready for NM yet, by pulling in even
people who don't yet have any ideas about how to contribute to Debian,
but want to help and learn in a structured scheme.
- They could also work for existing long-term Debian members, like the
FTP team's FTPTrainee scheme.[1]
--
Moray
[1] See
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00001.html
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