The lightening talk I gave at Rocky Mountain Ruby 2011 about my pledge to mentor someone in their quest tobecome a better developer.

1. Developing Developers
@mikegehard

2. Be the change you
wish to see in the
world - M Gandhi

3. There is a shortage of
software developers

4. What are you going to
do about it?

5. http://groups.google.com/
group/growing-programmers

6. What am I going to do
about it?

7. Now accepting
“applications” for an
apprentice

8. Must not currently have
a job developing
software

9. Must be looking to get
a job developing
software

10. Must be willing to drive
their own “education”

11. Must be willing to act
as a mentor to
someone else

12. All pre-requisites apply
to any other
apprentices in the
lineage