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Neary: Effective mentoring programsNeary: Effective mentoring programsPosted Jun 1, 2011 3:37 UTC (Wed) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606)Parent article: Neary: Effective mentoring programs
"...why so few of those who are mentored end up as project contributors..."
Uhmm, because the most important reward for most "apprentice" is the money? At least for now, they'll be able to use the experience later on their life when/where applicable.
Yet, the sponsors get good PR, the apprentices get the rewards, the FLOSS projects get the contributions. Everybody wins regardless of how effective the mentoring programs are, except for the mentors...
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Neary: Effective mentoring programs Posted Jun 1, 2011 9:40 UTC (Wed) by dneary (subscriber, #55185) [Link]
Hi,
Most mentoring programs (with the exception of GCI and GSOC) don't offer money to people who join. GNOME Love has an IRC channel, a mailing list and a wiki page.
Some mentoring programs offer fringe benefits, like bringing people to the community conference, but this is far from universal.
Cheers,
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