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To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
cc: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD mentor program (was: Stealable idea?) 
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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:18:59 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> While you're at it, sign me up for the following:
> 
> C/C++ programming: small, medium, or large scale.  (Defined as a few
> thousand, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of lines of
> code.  Never done a "millions" project yet.)

Hmmm.  Well, just to inject a note of cold reality into this, we have
a lot of people who bill themselves that way but they don't appear to
be much on taking on any actual projects, it seems, or we'd have had
our zip library API or our Turbovision based object set for TCL or our
device registration mechanism or our new package system (based on much
of the previous) or any of the host of other things which I and others
have called out for over the last 3 years (and which need to be
essentially written from scratch, having found no appropriate "canned
solutions" out there).

So I guess what I'm saying is that it's all well and good to list your
capabilities, but of far more importance is that key question which
Sean Connery asked of Kevin Costner in "The Untouchables":

	"What are you prepared to *do*?"

:-)

					Jordan