Re: Helping newcomers finding friends at GUADEC

Benjamin Berg <[email protected]> Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:13:53 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.guadec,gmane.comp.gnome.marketing
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On Mo, 2016-08-01 at 12:44 +0200, Lasse Schuirmann wrote:
> At europython they had "Mentor" badges and made it publicly known
> that
> peope with those badges are at all times willing to answer every
> single question for newcomers.
> 
> If it's not too late that could be printed with the rest on the
> attendee badges?

We could also manually print another badge for some people. We also
have a 25mm button machine available which we could use for this
purpose.

Benjamin

> Sincerely,
> 
> Lasse Schuirmann
> 
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> 
> On 1 August 2016 at 11:35, Benjamin Berg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have wondered a bit whether we could offer something that helps
> > new
> > or inexperienced community members to make friends at the
> > conference.
> > 
> > I heard that in A Coruna there were some games where you had simple
> > tasks in the style of "Find a release team member and ask them …".
> > Another example would be here at university where the first year
> > students are generally split into groups of around 20 people and
> > spend
> > almost a week together doing different activities to help them
> > bond.
> > 
> > I think it would be perfectly possible to organize something simple
> > even on a short notice. So if someone has an idea how we may help
> > individuals to e.g. start conversations with old community members,
> > to
> > go grab food with others, or to engage them in other ways then I
> > would
> > love to hear about it.
> > 
> > We can provide some resources (e.g. printing or buying stuff), but
> > we
> > don't have the resources in the core team to fully plan such
> > activities.
> > 
> > Benjamin
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