[Tutor] Working collaboratively

[Mark Lawrence]

On 19/10/2015 20:53, Alex Kleider wrote:
> On 2015-10-19 12:37, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net> writes:
>>
>>> I'm a long way from distributing packages!
>>
>> You can keep working at your own pace, and that's good. But even better,
>> I would strongly recommend that you work with other people early and
>> frequently.
>>
>> Programming is fundamentally a process of collaboration and
>> communication with other human programmers.
>>
>> The habits you form alone can be eccentric and unhelpful, with no-one to
>> comment on strange habits you may be forming without even noticing until
>> they are too deeply entrenched to easily avoid.
>>
>> Working frequently with others on the same code base will not only flush
>> out these oddities, but also help you to appreciate the consensus
>> decisions made in the past by the Python community as a whole.
>>
>> So, while it's not essential, I would heartily encourage you to pick
>> some of the PyPI projects you are enjoying, or want to improve, and
>> contact their maintainers with your offer to fix specific things. Work
>> with other Python programmers on a common code base, and watch your
>> skills broaden and improve!
>
> How I wish I could find such collaborator!
> Are there any "starter level" PyPi projects the maintainer of which
> might consider a novice collaborator?  I would have assumed that
> such an animal doesn't exist.
>
> I do appreciate the advice.
>
> cheers,
> Alex

How about https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-mentorship ?

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Mark Lawrence