Disclaimer: I'm not much of a developer, but more of an admin.

In my eyes, it's not so easy to "give back to the community". There is the money part and that is, where I usually end up. About the remainder ... either I'm too bad to do it or the (social) procedure to get it done is way to "red taped" for my liking. So, I stay out of the kitchen.

The things, I do, didn't matter for the OpenSource communities. Ex.: next year, some co-workers will work through the Camel-book and I'll be some kind of tutor. That's a Good Thing(tm), but of little consequence to the perl-community.

As I like to say: If you can't do the splendig work, there's a lot of drab work.

In reply to Re: Giving back to the community by martinvi
in thread Giving back to the community by bprew

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