Sterling Rose Design Blog

I am a martial artist, and try to train either body or mind every day.

Today I was reading a page from Bow to Life: 365 Secrets From the Martial Arts for Daily Life and the lesson really struck home for me in terms of my work with RailsBridge.

(Beginners are) your opportunity to participate and bring more goodness into life. Beginners let you empty your cup while filling theirs. They are life’s way of vaulting you to higher consciousness and better living.
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Look for opportunities to share your expertise with others. Treat each opportunity as a learning experience for yourself. Ask yourself why life has sent you this particular person at this special time. What aspect of sharing your expertise is connected to your o...

Over the last couple of weeks, a motivated group of people took the See a need, fill a need approach to development in general, and the Rails development community in particular. The needs we saw were:

a) Make a concerted, focused effort to encourage a sort of “culture of kindness,”
b) Promote a “give back” mentality by developing applications in Rails for non-profit organizations,
c) Support greater inclusion of all kinds of minorities, and
d) Provide a wealth of documentation, mentorship, and instructional material to new developers.

With those objectives in mind, we have launched RailsBridge. Our guidelines are pretty simple:

* First, do no harm. Then, help where you can.
* Bridge the gap from aspiring developer to contributing community member, through mentoring, teaching, and writing.