in reply to Giving back to the community

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.

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Re^2: Giving back to the community
by Jenda (Abbot) on Dec 25, 2004 at 18:19 UTC

    You never know, if you tutor them well they may very well become new valued members of the community, maintainers of well known modules, people known for helping others, perl porters, ... We owe a lot to the often nameless teachers of the giants, the men and women who entranced Pasteur for Chemistry, Darvin for Biology, Newton for Physics, ... They might not make any big discovery/invention themselves, but I would not consider them of having little consequence to the community ;-)

    Jenda
    We'd like to help you learn to help yourself
    Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes
    Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home
       -- P. Simon in Mrs. Robinson
    P.S.: I guess this node shows English is not my native :-)

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