Where should a wannabe dev/mentor start?

[blithespirit]

 Hi folks,
Not sure this is the right place to ask, but I have a friend who is a sys admin with Perl experience who is interested in helping out the Dreamwidth project/community. He mentioned that he has Perl experience, specifically. I have been waxing lyrical about the awesomeness of Dreamwidth & the fact that it helps train its users/community members to be able to work on the code, and got him interested in helping. :)
He said he was interested in maybe helping with Perl mentoring, if that would be of use.
Can anyone help me point him in the right direction - I'd like to show him what needs to be done/the various entry points for helping out, etc. 
Thanks in advance, love your work, etc etc. <3

Comments

[kareila]

I would say one of the top two things to point him at would be this page: http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Dev_Getting_Started

And the other would be #dw in IRC, irc.dwscoalition.org:6667 - but that's supposed to move to a new server very soon.

IRC is the best way to talk with the other devs, but if he's the quiet self-starter type, he should be able to find what he needs on the wiki.

For Perl mentoring specifically, again I would say hang out on IRC, and there's also the dw_dev & dw_dev_training communities where people post questions and advice.

[blithespirit]

Oh perfect, thank you kareila, that's exactly the kind of info I was hoping for. Thank you, thank you, thank you! <3

[kareila]

Glad to help! Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help him get started.

[pauamma]

In addition to that, #dw_kindergarten for perl-specific help.

[blithespirit]

Thanks pauamma!