Love what you're offering, Mikel - would love to hear how many people take you up on that.
-- Pat On 23/04/2010, at 11:53 AM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: > On 22, April 2010, at 22 Apr 22:05, chrisjacob wrote: >> I would be happy to to pay someone to pick their brain for 30 minutes >> each fortnight... via iChat/Skype. Could be an interesting money >> earner if someone was interested to take on a few people eager like >> myself.... just offer very short, informal (but well informed) >> conversations. $50-75 for 30 minutes one-on-one, sounds like a fair >> price to me. Or do small groups - like no more than 3 noobs per expert >> at a time. > > As a potential mentor, this sounds reasonable. From a mentor point of view > (and a business one) we have a real shortage of good Rails programmers out > there, something I want to help fix over the next year. > > But at the same time, when you are billing flat out with paying clients who > all have dead lines, it's a really tall order to just go "free". I already > help several people who are friends and associates learn rails, and that > takes enough time that I can't really afford to just keep doing it for > nothing. > > One thing I have found successful is ichat or Skype based screen sharing and > code reviews. > > So I'll go out on a limb. > > Anyone who wants me to work with them via an ichat screen sharing session to > look over their code and help point them in the right direction, or even give > them some points on Rails 3 or anything else, if you are a RoRo community > member (ie, actively trying to learn Rails for your career or just hobby) > then ping me, or call me, and we'll hook up. I'm happy to be available for > $60 per half hour or $100 per hour for this sort of code mentoring. > > Alternatively, if you want to do this mentoring on an open source product, > I'll do the above for 75% of the above charges. So $45 for a 30 minute stint > and $75 per hour. > > Note, these are not commercial training rates, though I am available to come > in and work with a team. This is a special rate to help the community along. > > So there you go, the gauntlet is thrown :) Anyone want to pick it up? :D :D > :D > > Mikel > > RubyX > Mikel Lindsaar > Director > > > http://rubyx.com/ > ABN: 50 105 923 517 > Ph: +61 2 8019 7252 > Fax: +61 2 8019 7272 > Level 32, 101 Miller Street, North Sydney, NSW, 2060, Australia > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
