<div dir="ltr">No Dr, am not referring that level of mentoring. The type of mentoring I mean is an experience IEFT
participant aiding newcomers and interested ones especially students to integrate into the
community through advice and help. This will eventually speed up their
integration time.
:)<br> </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:el@lisse.na" target="_blank">el@lisse.na</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Are you serious?</div><div><br></div><div>Needing university level mentoring to join a mailing list?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Never mind that you still don't understand how the IETF works. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>el<br><br>-- <div>Sent from Dr Lisse's iPhone 5c</div></div></font></span><div class="">
<div><br>On Mar 3, 2014, at 13:44, Dawda Jatta <<a href="mailto:dawda.jatta@utg.edu.gm" target="_blank">dawda.jatta@utg.edu.gm</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Optima","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">"May
be African young engineers need mentorship on how to follow and
participate in technical mailing lists? If yes, this should been done at
the University and national levels."<br></span>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><font size="1"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font color="#1f497d">I
strongly agree with you on this point. Using African universities
would be one of the best ways since this is where you can have
enthusiast young Engineers in the making. </font></span></font></b>
</p><b><font size="1"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
</span></font></b><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><font size="1"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font color="#1f497d">Was
going through IETF 87 – Berlin summary and it portion of it states
“... This meeting was also the first for our new mentoring system.
Volunteers from the IETF attendees had set up 50 mentors helping new
people find their way in the IETF...”. This is actually a good initiative and hoping that many young African Engineers will soon benefit from this mentoring.</font></span></font></b></p></div></div></blockquote></div>[...]</div>
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