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December 31, 2014, 06:48:26 PM |
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So i've been a long time lurker, only recently signed up. Been having a bad month and got screwed on a bunch of invoices by clients so posted a topic trying to sell some services/scripts to come up w/ some extra scratch w/ no luck and then out of desperation i created a topic in the lending section (knowing damn well i would catch some crap and probably have no luck) that i ended up locking because i didn't anticipate how much it'd offend the community in general, let alone specific members of the community.
Anyways, in the lending thread, it a comment was made that i haven't contributed to the community so i shouldn't be asking for anything (despite the fact i have, just not on this board / in a showy public fashion) and it got me thinking about how i might be able to contribute and frankly i'm not sure what i can do that'd make any real difference or benefit the community, i've been so swamped w/ work recently and trying to scramble to get through getting screwed, etc.. i'm a bit out of the loop, hence this thread.
I'm a software developer, primarily web based development but also do desktop and mobile development. Have over 10 years of experience doing it and i'm a pretty damn good dev. if i do say so myself. That being said, i'm wondering how my skillset could be best employed to contribute to the community and figured what better way to get ideas then to ask the community. So i created this topic to ask...
In what ways can a developer/all around technical sorta guy best contribute to the community. I obviously can't afford to work fulltime on something that'll see no returns as i have mouths to feed, etc.. but i would like to contribute more. If anyone has any ideas for scripts,programs or other things that might fall within my area of expertise that i could create/contribute, i'm all ears. I'll entertain any ideas and anything realistic that i can do with my current situation i will do simply to contribute. Along that same thread, if there's something the community needs developed that might have some real value and could be sold/resold to the community (at a reasonable price of course) i'd obviously like to do some things like that as well, however i'm not only entertaining ideas that can make me a profit, i'm entertaining anything i can reasonably do that will be widely accepted as a nice contribution to the community so please fire away.
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