Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

[Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com>]

David Jardine wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:54:15PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
> [...]
>   
> > The Dreyfus Model of Sill Acquisition [1], describes skills acquisition
> > as passing through five levels:  novice, advanced beginner, competent,
> > proficient, and expert.
> >     
> [...]
>   
> >                                                           I also
> > taught nursing where we take novices and turn them into advanced
> > beginners over the course of 4 years.  
> >     
>
> Thanks, Doug!  That was most enlightening.  Five stages, four 
> years per stage. I'd often wondered why I'd displayed no sign of 
> competence in all my years with Debian, but I see that it won't 
> be long now!  Mmm.  Or will it?
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>   
I think Doug actually meant one year for each of those courses, and 
after four years of lessons the user will become an expert. Although I 
may be wrong, and those two things could possibly have nothing to do 
with one another.