Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 22:37:56 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD mentor program (was: Stealable idea?) Message-ID: <199711210537.WAA15178@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <370.880078739@time.cdrom.com> References: <199711200355.UAA13839@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <370.880078739@time.cdrom.com>
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I had recently blathered:
% 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.)
To which Jordan K. Hubbard replied:
> 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*?"
Advise people who are working on FreeBSD projects. That is what Eivind
was asking about, a FreeBSD Mentoring list of some sort.
I don't have a lot of bandwidth left for big coding projects in my
copious spare time, which amounts to 2 hours on Sunday afternoon, if I'm
lucky, each week. I do, however, have an hour or so each night after
the baby goes to sleep before I completely bomb out, and can
occasionally write lucid replies to queries during those times. If
someone wants to tap into the expertise I have and ask a few questions,
I'm more than glad to help.
This is what *I* envisioned by a "FreeBSD Mentor" project/list. As an
editor hereabouts used to say, "We welcome contrasting viewpoints from
responsible individuals."
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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