Re: [Tutor] mentorship

2012-03-03 Thread Christopher Conner
Bob, Fascinating - I am intrigued. I'll do some historical research in the mean time; please let me know how to get started. Thank you very much, Chris On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:10:25 -0600, bob gailer wrote: I head an open-source project "Python Pipelines" and am currently seeking folk li

Re: [Tutor] mentorship

2012-03-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 03/03/2012 03:49, Christopher Conner wrote: Hello folks - I'm a little lost and seek a mentor to accelerate the learning curve associated with open-source development, with python in particular but not exclusively. I've been an computer enthusiast / amateur programmer for 20 years. Too, in t

Re: [Tutor] mentorship

2012-03-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Christopher Conner wrote: I've got some free time and I feel like I should pick an open source project and begin contributing, but the options are just staggering. I've narrowed things down to the Python language - maybe the Plone project? maybe helping with documentation at first? Maybe testi

[Tutor] mentorship

2012-03-02 Thread Christopher Conner
Hello folks - I'm a little lost and seek a mentor to accelerate the learning curve associated with open-source development, with python in particular but not exclusively. I've been an computer enthusiast / amateur programmer for 20 years. Too, in the past few years I've researched a varie