For general asychronous communication, a mailing list works great. But 
for mentoring as I was referring to, it's the lag time of a mailing list 
is immensely frustrating.

If you're concerned about losing valuable information that would be lost 
by immediate mentoring, I could suggest that just as it would "behoove" 
those who are trained to train others... it would also be good for them 
to contribute a summary of the received information and provide that for 
general consumption. In fact... even for the most lazy, capturing the 
IRC or chat transcript, some simple editing, and posting the results 
might be the bare minimum that the mentoree could do for everyone to 
gain some benefit.

Wiki might be more effective for that in general, though (I certainly 
prefer the living documentation aspect of wiki). A post to the mailing 
list describing the new page might be useful... unless, better yet, does 
Swiki support change notifications?

-joel


ducasse wrote:

> But please do it via the list that everybody learn. I want to be 
> mentored too :).
> This is too cool to learn something new.
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> On Mardi, nov 4, 2003, at 14:43 Europe/Zurich, Karl Ramberg wrote:
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>> Trygve Reenskaug wrote:
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>>> I would be very grateful if I could spend more time on new and ported
>>> stuff, and less on second guessing how to do simple things like 
>>> keeping a
>>> large cursor on the screen for the duration of a demo. And can I find a
>>> large hand cursor anywhere?
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>> Any form can be a cursor. For example in a SketchMorph inspector doIt:
>> ActiveHand showTemporaryCursor: self form
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>>> So, is there a volunteer mentor out there?
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>> Sure, I can be a mentor.
>>
>> Karl
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