New member category - please help choose a title
#1
Posted 22 May 2008 - 11:26 PM
The tutorial section has grown with many guides and tutorials that teach good techniques and help other users to learn: http://www.boot-land...hp?showforum=68
This idea came as a suggestion from Jaclaz and we both agree that it's time to create a new member category to distinguish these members who often post good tutorials and documentation as a small token of appreciation for their effort along with better forum work conditions (nearly the same as the developers category)
So, all that is left to be done is choosing the new title for this new category.
Let's hear your ideas and once it's decided let's implement it.
Hope you like this idea.
#2
Posted 23 May 2008 - 12:07 AM
#3
Posted 23 May 2008 - 05:11 AM
Seekers
Knowledge seekers
Let the Wisdom Fill the World
We have come to Teach
#4
Posted 23 May 2008 - 06:57 AM
Hows about!
"O.B.1"
"May the Force be With You" LOL!
Can we be red in colour?
Here's another way of looking at it:@ TheHive "We have come to Teach"
"We have "not" come here to Teach but to awaken" - wise words indeed!
Student: I would like to get to know you beyond the techniques and skills you could teach me. Would you be willing to answer a few questions?
Yes, certainly!
Q ~ Who is your most significant teacher?
A ~ Myself. Just as your most significant teacher is you. Provided you pay attention.
Q ~ How can you teach yourself something you don't already know?
A ~ First you have to ask the right questions. And then throw the full light of day into all the dark corners of yourself that you have hidden so skillfully from yourself. You have to be willing to dig up the buried parts of yourself and really look at them with no excuses. Then pay attention to what the daily happenings and relationships in your life present to you as teachings.
Q ~ What are the most important questions to ask?
A ~ Who am I? Why am I here? Where did I come from? Where am I going in this life & the next?? What do I need to learn from this to assist the evolution of my own consciousness? How can I use this (situation, event, relationship, etc.) to bring more love and light to the Planet? How can I best help co-create heaven on earth now, in this moment?
Your answers to these essential questions will change for you over time, so pay attention when each of these questions comes up again, as they will each time you look at them from a different perspective and from a different chronological age.
Allow me to quote from Richard Bach. Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it.
Just some superficial thoughts,
Regards & Best Wishes,
ispy
#5
Posted 23 May 2008 - 11:42 AM
And if you screw them up too much, you'll get the title oracle!
#6
Posted 23 May 2008 - 04:48 PM
jaclaz
#7
Posted 23 May 2008 - 08:57 PM
here is an oracular utterance, (called khrēsmoi in Greek) "I'm very good @ screwing up my sentences especially after a bottle of red wine," I speak fluid "marshon" then!
Jaclaz obviously your "midichlorian" readings are off the scale, the force is strong with you "O Master Jaclaz"."Let the padawans come"
Here's is my serious candidate or proposal & I will portray it with a screenshot to Illustrate what I mean:
I advocate illustrator we try to illustrate & awaken rather than teach or instruct, you guys are closer to being teachers than I ever could be!
Regards & Best Wishes,
ispy
#8
Posted 24 May 2008 - 01:16 AM
For those who illuminate the way.
#9
Posted 24 May 2008 - 01:05 PM
How about flashlights?For those who illuminate the way.
#10
Posted 24 May 2008 - 01:24 PM
Flashlights, I ask you! & as for illuminators...
What about Illuminati "Enlightened ones" New World Order (NWO). 'Conspiracy theorists' that reminds me my annual subscription is about due now where is that "Skull 'n' Bones" renewal form That George W sent me? We could have secret call signs & rituals a new world order run from Boot-Land? LOL!
All I can say is poor old Nuno & Jaclaz, they have a lot to put up with...
Regards & Best Wishes
ispy
#11
Posted 24 May 2008 - 01:51 PM
No secret societies above script developers, here at boot-land!
#12
Posted 24 May 2008 - 02:06 PM
http://www.thefreedi....com/vulgariser
(second meaning)
or "popularisers":
http://www.thefreedi...com/populariser
Cannot say which one of the two "sounds" better in English.
Illuminators seems fine to me, while Illuminati is maybe a bit pretentious...., Illustrators conveys better the idea, at least to me:
http://www.merriam-w...ry/illustrators
Or maybe "preceptors":
http://www.thefreedi...y.com/preceptor
jaclaz
#13
Posted 24 May 2008 - 05:54 PM
E.g. me as German (with low level English knowledge) hearing 'Illustrator' have the opinion about an artist making paints in comics. etc.
I suppose that something 'serious' is the best way and agree to the suggestion of the old fashioned 'Tutor', but with an attribute:
Senior Tutor
Peter
BTW: Sorry, Ispy, I always mark in blue.
Following your suggestion (to which I agree):
Senior Tutor
#14
Posted 24 May 2008 - 06:58 PM
It seems to close to being vulgar.
How about,
Mentor's
mentor: a trusted friend, counselor or teacher, usually a more experienced person.
#15
Posted 24 May 2008 - 08:19 PM
Not, vulgariser
It seems to close to being vulgar.
How about,
Mentor's
mentor: a trusted friend, counselor or teacher, usually a more experienced person.
I also agree to a
Senior Mentor
Peter
#16
Posted 25 May 2008 - 09:41 AM
jaclaz
#17
Posted 25 May 2008 - 04:54 PM
Excuse me, 'Shocked & stunned', you mean we are not LOL! (nervous LOL!)MedEvil - Illuminati, you wished!
No secret societies above script developers, here at boot-land!
This is a crude definition of a "mentor"
That desription does not really fit me (Mind you this is not only just about me either!)This is the source of the modern use of the word mentor: a trusted friend, counselor or teacher, usually a more experienced person. Some professions have "mentoring programs" in which newcomers are paired with more experienced people in order to obtain good examples and advice as they advance, and schools sometimes have mentoring programs for new students or students who are having difficulties.
If I was to describe a "Mentor" it is a expression with connotations of Very Experienced Individuals that you look up to for example Amalux in a previous posting said that Peter psc was his mentor. He was using it in the context of trusted friend counsellor & someone of experience. Whereas I feel that title would better fit you jaclaz, peter psc, MedEvil Galapo Nuno TheHive, developers & everyone else for that matter. Also the "senior" fits typically in respect of age but what if you get people/persons of a younger disposition writing excellent tutorials etc. Also "Senior" from another perspective has a flavour of elitetism.
Yes, checking up in the english dictionary there is a slant towards your description.I think that the title should be so simple that it is not misunderstood by some foreign members.
E.g. me as German (with low level English knowledge) hearing 'Illustrator' have the opinion about an artist making paints in comics. etc.
What about something plain & simple like "Researcher" (I like this one) cuz afterall that is what we do or what about "Resourcer" (we provide resources) or "Guide" or "trainer" or "tutelage" but probably this word is a bit obscure & infers the act of.
Or if for the more uncomfortable approach "Consultant" but that infers specialism which really we are not.
Great "Brainstorming" session though
Regards & Best Wishes,
ispy
#18
Posted 25 May 2008 - 06:09 PM
#19
Posted 25 May 2008 - 06:36 PM
"Researcher" is not bad either
#20
Posted 25 May 2008 - 09:24 PM
Two more for the melting pot! These are derived from a business arena, the two candidates are:
1) Enabler (One who enables or provides the tools to...)
2) Facilitator (A facilitator is someone who helps a group of people understand their common objectives and assists them to plan to achieve them)
@ TheHive, indeed I like "Reseacher" too
UMmmm Mentor, is for ones with higher skills personally that title is a bit pretentious (nice thought though)
Regards,
ispy
#21
Posted 25 May 2008 - 09:26 PM
Researcher, sounds like a lower grade finder to me."Researcher" is not bad either
#22
Posted 25 May 2008 - 09:48 PM
NP I could live with that & it has the benefit of being plain & simple.Researcher, sounds like a lower grade finder to me.
Or what about looking at it from a different angle something like
Tuts-4-U
guides-4-U
what about using a symbol instead something like for instance or
Or an old fashioned approach what about "Scribe"
Or form the expression to Induct someone "Inductor"
or a straight forward approach "Instructor"
Regards,
ispy
#23
Posted 26 May 2008 - 07:25 AM
jaclaz
#24
Posted 26 May 2008 - 10:03 AM
I suppose that something 'serious' is the best way and agree to the suggestion of the old fashioned 'Tutor', but with an attribute:
Senior Tutor
Germans tend towards compounded appellatives, Australians tend towards more minimalistic titles. Hence my preference if for the title 'Tutor'.
Regards,
Galapo.
#25
Posted 26 May 2008 - 04:23 PM
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