Re: Giving back to the community

[martinvi]

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.

[Jenda]

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 ;-)