Regarding the "mentoring" discussion we've been having, I notice that the ePDX has this link for "groups" that use the word mentoring: http://epdx.org/groups/tag/mentoring However, that doesn't seem too helpful. I mean, when I was just starting out in this industry, I would loved to have glommed onto a gray-haired mentor for advice, but now that I have the gray hair, I'm not sure how to help. On one hand, someone can crowd-source a huge amount of online advice, but that information is too general and impersonal. On the other hand, the idea of a mentor that gets to know someone well enough to give particular advice requires a time investment few of us have. Still, this seems like a worth-while idea. Part of me has thought about creating a site that connects mentors with particular experience and mentees with specific interests, but I'm not sure how that would come out as little more than an odd, dating site. Yeah, I did sign up on CodeScouts a few months ago, but I think everyone there is pretty busy and I haven't heard back, so I'm just going to throw out this idea… If you are interested in grabbing a series of coffees or Skype chats with someone who taught himself to program from a TRS-80 manual in 1980 and has been programming every day since, who learned functional programming in Scheme before it was trendy, who's bread and butter has been enterprise software and web applications, and who has been involved in the Portland Startup Community for 15 years, let me know.
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