I find myself in a rather unique situation: Single, living alone in a small studio apartment, only taking a class or two here and there, and basically living off of small contracts. It’s not that I’m not offered big gigs, or that I couldn’t go back to school full time if I really wanted to, I just find I enjoy living a simple lifestyle that lets me spend a lot of time on community oriented projects, especially Ruby stuff.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Yeah, I'd Give Greg Brown Sixty Bucks
And I'm not being sarcastic, either. Maybe it would just be a vicarious pleasure because with 3 kids, a year oold Honda Minivan and overpriced Skokie house there is no way in hell I could live on $2000/month. Or maybe because there's a bunch of cool Python (non-web) libraries that should be ported to Ruby. If I'm willing to give Obama $50 I'm certainly willing to give Greg Brown $60 To work on Open Source
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Hey, that's nice to hear. If you'd like to do that, you can now:
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/571
I've changed the block size to $50, but any donation amount is welcome.
I've also put together a more organized proposal than my O'Reilly blog post, at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/03/id_love_to_quit_my_job_sort_of.html
Despite your poking fun at me from time to time, I totally respect anyone who's working hard to maintain a family lifestyle, that stuff is not easy at all these days.
-greg
Greg,
Good deal. I don't poke fun anymore. Too exhausted, plus I got over most of my Python-isms after 3-4 months so not so Angry anymore. Especially since Ruby is so much better than the shell scripts I was rewriting -- or Perl!
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