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On 2/14/07, SonOfLilit <sonoflilit / gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Remember Samantha? She dropped by the list a while ago and was given the
> idea to develop a Rails resume generator...
>
> Anyway, yesterday she happened to email me about the Haifa RUG post (only
> reply this far and it was a false :/ ) and I happened to remember her
> project and give her a bit of advice, and it developed into a conversation
> reminding a bit of a chat about her project, that seems to have pulled her
> out of a stuck position (I hope).
>
> Well, she told me she's glad she can email me those questions since
> sending
> them to the list would be overkill and uncomfortable...
>
> Now, remember the recent discussion about newbie questions plaguing the
> list?
>
> All of this has brought me to think of an Adopt-a-newbie model. Somehow,
> every newbie that wants would get an email address of a volunteer from
> ruby-talk, with whom he can correspond personally and who will answer his
> basic questions and serve to also encourage him to keep learning.
>
> I could manage two-three active newbies at a time, I think, and they would
> greatly benefit from it if they are anything like me.
>
>
> What do you think? Would you consider it a good idea? Would you volunteer?
> Is anyone up for infrastructure (preferrably on ruby-lang.org, though
> anywhere is good)?
>
>
>
> Aur Saraf
>

As a newbie, I think that would be awesome.  I've emailed off-list with two
people so far, and the help has been tremendous.  I think that it's an
awesome idea.  Personally, I don't like putting stuff out there and possibly
sounding like a moron ;) so, I get shy asking specific questions when I know
that so many people are out there on the list.  It's a bit intimidating.

So, you get my newbie-vote.

-- 
Samantha

http://www.babygeek.org/

"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all
things are at risk."
  --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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