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Onboarding New Mappers

Hi Clifford, thanks for this link, much appreciated. On a quick scan I think it looks very useful as well as being clearly laid out. I’ll certainly follow through and learn from it. I wish I’d found it as a beginner! I think this nicely shows my point that it would be useful for beginners to have easy access to a curated set of websites and videos for self education. This website would clearly be included. I find videos the most helpful, but other folk will prefer reading material, I’m sure. Thanks and best wishes, Kate

Onboarding New Mappers

Hi @martien-vdg, I’m a newby here, so apologies if these are daft suggestions. As a keen beginner not that long ago I was helped very much by a couple of validators - @SteveJH and @(C Walsh) - who took me under their wing and gave me good feedback, support and encouragement. They were kind, interactive and patient and gave me links to further information to study as well. I know validators are busy people, but wonder if creating some form of mentor system would help save time down the line? Before finding these mentors, I found the amount of information available on line, beyond the introductory videos on TM, quite bewildering. It would also be great if there was a curated list of e.g. videos to watch, listed from “beginner” to “expert” which folk who were interested in improving their skills could use to self-educate? Thanks for trying to improve the system, Martien and best of luck! Kate, a.k.a. Kicking Leaves