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Finding geeks

Posted on May 18th, 2006 by Sacha Chua

I don't know why people complain about not being able to find talent. ;) I run across so many interesting people while watching mailing lists or hanging out with other geeks. For example, if you're looking for Ruby geeks in the Philippines, Botp Peña sounds really interesting. Hey, anyone who advocates Rails and volunteers training has to be cool. ;)

if you're interested to learn ruby, i can provide training session for free. just provide the place and at least 10 people to join. dili nako kaya tudlo isa-isa. ma-luoy mo. dapat naa whiteboard (kung wala projector), mga desk/silya, printer para sa handouts/exercises, and notebooks or desktops na ma-gamit ninyo ug nako (wala koy notebook, sorry). Also, dapat naa mo programming background (any language will do. di nako gusto lurat inyo mata. dapat naka-smile pirmi). i prefer to hold trainings monthly/semi-monthly lang kay para dili kaayo ko hago. one training session will cover the whole day (puwede sab ma-hangyo half-day)

• Peña, Botp (botp AT delmonte-phil.com)

E-Mail from Peña

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Random Japanese sentence: 私はあの店で猫を買った。 I bought a cat at that shop.

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