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== Draft strategy for a newly arrived Lightning hacker ==
* set up [[Education/Learning/Irc|IRC]] client to auto-join #education, #calendar, and #maildev
* use #education as a first place to ask for help (especially on stuff not specific to Ltn or Tb)
* pull Thunderbird and Lightning from comm-central, make a build that works
* find a few [http://bit.ly/B6Ei5 [good first bug]]s and do them
* find a bug with a [http://vocamus.net/dave/?p=408 student-project] keyword, discuss with humph/Fallen and do it
* talk to Fallen to find next project

== Straw-man plan to make above happen ==
* find a reasonable set of lightning bugs (10?) to give student-project keyword
* review existing [good first bug]s to ensure that they're still relevant and make sense
* start directing newbies to #education and humph
* draft/publish Lightning near-term roadmap
* draft blog post asking for help, with links to the ramp-up process above and the various buglists
* send version of blog posts to various folks who have expressed interest in the past