Re: [Air-L] Voting Open & A Question for Candidates

I prefer informal relations too, but informal relations work best in small companies, as we grow and reach out, we'll need to provide clear 'paths to community' which may take more or less formal systems, but 'paths into the community' is really what the graduate student mentoring is about, less than systems of hierarchy and formalized relations. Also mentorship is 'opt-in', if you want to participate great, if not, no worries. I've been on both sides of the mentorship relationship so far, and I think that i've benefitted from all the relationships that I've developed, so I am a strong supporter of mentor networks for graduate students.