Re: [guadec-list] Helping newcomers finding friends at GUADEC

[Lasse Schuirmann <lasse schuirmann gmail com>]

Well, we gotta carry around those badges anyway. If they are to be
carried visibly you could indicate newcomer friendliness by giving the
name or so a background colour, while "normal attendees" have
something boring and "newcomer mentors" have something exclusive and
exciting, in terms of colours ;).

But yeah, buttons will do as well. Though I tend to not see them. It
should be easily visible especially if you're not already talking to
the person.
Sincerely,

Lasse Schuirmann

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On 1 August 2016 at 14:13, Benjamin Berg <benjamin sipsolutions net> wrote:
> 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
> >
> > lasse schuirmann net
> > http://coala-analyzer.org/ - http://viperdev.io/ -
> > http://gitmate.com/
> >
> >
> > On 1 August 2016 at 11:35, Benjamin Berg <benjamin sipsolutions net>
> > 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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