Giving back to the community
I’ve recently been appointed as the lead adviser for JavaPassion.Com’s Ruby on Rails online training course by the legendary Sang Shin. I talked about this Ruby on Rails online course in my previous post. At the time of this writing, there are 998 registered students and will likely to hit 1K in a few hours. As the lead adviser, I’ll basically be the go-to guy for students when it comes to questions and assist Sang in developing course content.
I must say that I am no expert in RoR. I picked it up only about a year ago as a hobby. Since then my experience and relationship with Ruby and Rails communities have been nice and warm. The same goes for Java and other open source communities. Quite often that I think about giving back and contribute to open source projects. However, neither my coding skills nor my schedule had allowed me to do so. So my resolution becomes
“If I can’t make a contribution in code, then I’ll do it in the form of content!”.
And here it goes… 
Reminder: the course starts July 15th, go register if you havn’t done so!
Lars Henriksen responded on 24 Jul 2008 at 5:55 am #
That’s really cool - congratulations!!
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