[WMF-outreach-staff] Expert track vs. Beginner track

[Asheesh Laroia]

Hey all,

Sumana, you mentioned having an expert track, and a separate beginner 
track. If you end up organizing the expert track separately, that's 
probably fine, but I want to be as up-to-date as possible on what you end 
up planning. I think there'll probably be some overlap, so I want to 
maximize how both groups can benefit from each other.

Some particular things I imagine might happen:

* Some experts will serve as mentors for newcomers who are learning 
things, which does mean taking them away from extreme hacking on their 
own.

* Some of the tutorials etc. that we organize for "beginners" might be 
useful for "experts" who just have different subsets of knowledge.

The structure I'm hoping for is that we can focus more on hands-on 
learning, with people supporting each other, so that people get through 
making one or more real contributions to gadgets/code/puppet/etc, rather 
than focusing on tutorials, but it's likely some tutorials will be helpful 
to have.

-- Asheesh.