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- From: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
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- Subject: Guidelines for Uk Usenet Mentors
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- Summary: The group of volunteers to assist with the preparation and processing
- of RFDs for the uk.* hierarchy.
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- Last-modified: Thu Jun 19 10:32:52 BST 2003
-
- The procedures for coordinating newsgroup management within the UK hierarchy
- are contained in four documents, of which this article contains the last.
-
- GUIDELINES FOR GROUP CREATION WITHIN THE UK HIERARCHY
- <http://www.usenet.org.uk/guidelines.html>
- <ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/uk/guidelines>
- VOTING PROCEDURES WITHIN THE UK HIERARCHY
- <http://www.usenet.org.uk/voting.html>
- <ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/uk/voting>
- THE UK USENET COMMITTEE
- <http://www.usenet.org.uk/committee.html>
- <ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/uk/committee>
- GUIDELINES FOR UK USENET MENTORS
- <http://www.usenet.org.uk/mentors.html>
-
- The following Guidelines were accepted on 13 Jul 2000 by a vote with 27 votes
- in favour and 8 votes against.
-
-
- GUIDELINES FOR UK USENET MENTORS
-
- 1. There shall be an organization called UK USENET MENTORS, its purpose
- being to help proponents with naming, wording of charters, use of
- available resources, submission of proposal. Normally, mentoring advice
- would cease when either a fast-track request or CFV was requested and
- in many cases would end when a successful submission to
- uk.net.news.announce was made.
-
- 2. Use of uk mentors is NOT a required part of submitting an RFD, but
- is recomended to those who are unfamilar with the RFD process, and
- highly recomended to first time uk.* proponents.
-
- 3. The organization shall be headed by either a committee member or
- person appointed by the commitee who shall assume a management and
- oversight role only. It will mainly communicate by an internal mailing
- list and via a web page for external information.
-
- 4. Any person within uk.* who is not a committee member may apply to
- become a uk-mentor by approaching the oversight mentor. It is strongly
- recommended that the candidate mentor should have successfully been a
- proponent for a proposal in uk.*. It is also suggested that candidate
- mentors are familiar with the Guidelines and with current activity and
- trends within uk.net.news.*.
-
- 5. UK-Mentors would be expected to have a good understanding of
- procedures within uk.* and be able to assist naming, wording of
- charters, help with resources and timetabling of proposals.
-
-
- 6. Mentors shall attempt to act in a non-judgemental manner at all
- times regardless of their opinions of proponent or subject matter. They
- shall attempt to be non-directive, giving the proponent a number of
- suggested options where it is possible to do so. These options may
- include creation in other heirarchies or as mailing lists where
- appropriate.
-
- 7. Any person not persistently keeping up to these standards may be
- removed from the list by a general agreement of those on the uk-mentors
- mailing list. Any proposals being mentored by a removed person shall be
- reassigned by the oversight mentor to other mentors.
-
- 8. Proponents may either approach the uk-mentors directly using a
- submission email address or may be referred to the uk-mentors by
- Control or the committee.
-
- 9. The usual situation shall be for one mentor to be assigned to one
- proposal by the oversight mentor, however, in certain circumstances the
- mentor may wish either guidance on specific points from the mailing
- list or work the whole proposal through with the mailing list.
-
- 10. Assignment of mentors should be done by volunteering and mentors
- must not take on proposals with which they have disagreements on the
- subject matter. In addition, Mentors should also be aware of the
- pitfalls of mentoring a proposal that they have great personal interest
- in. Mentors or proponents may request of the oversight mentor that they
- reassign the mentoring of the proposal should a personality clash
- arise.
-
- Organisational Details
-
- The Committee has appointed Geoff Berrow to manage the team of Uk Usenet
- Mentors. Full information about the mentoring scheme can be found at
- <http://www.uk-mentors.org.uk>. Requests for mentoring assistance should be
- made to <mentor-request@uk-mentors.org.uk>.
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