Guild (was Re: [consulting] Proper Collections Procedure)

[Darrel O'Pry]

On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 02:38 +0200, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
> Harry Slaughter wrote:
> 
> > (IMHO FWIW disclaimers here) I see the drupal community as having two 
> > general groups, the haves and the have nots :) those that have the 
> > experience, knowledge, voice, authority regarding drupal and the rest of 
> > us who (and maybe i'm only speaking for myself) feel left largely on 
> > their own. with a *lot* of persistence, patience (and financial 
> > resources) it definitely is possible to advance into the more desirable 
> > group.
> 
> This takes persistence and time, not neccessarily money. My only 
> expenses wrt Drupal were my own travel expenses to various Drupal 
> events. The time is needed to write patches, review patches, rewrite 
> patches, etc... (standard disclaimer: Yes, contribution in other areas 
> but code /is/ possible).
> 
> > i'm starting to see some of the benefits of meeting people and 
> > sticking around. but i have a suspicion (based mostly on what i see in 
> > IRC and in drupal forums) that we may be losing potential developers 
> > and/or drupal users simply because they have no idea what to do, who to 
> > contact, where to ask, what api call to make, how to apply their CSS 
> > skills to drupal, etc...
> 
> I think that most people who are serious about contributing to Drupal 
> figure it out pretty soon.
> 
> Oh, and I see no use for a Drupal guild of any kind. If I want to 
> cooperate others I do that per project, that's ok and leaves me enough 
> flexibility.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Gerhard



ditto, plus I can ping people for additional skills I don't have at any
time.

.darrel.