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Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR)

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Re: Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR)

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Post by stevefink »

_chap wrote: post #2

Thanks for the ups guys. As I said on the site I owe a lot of our success to the generous spirit of the open source community and wanted to give a little back. If you're interested in volunteering to take calls: http://www.railshotline.com/apply.html

chap, as I've mentioned before, I think this is yet another great way to contribute to open source. It's not always about writing code - projects like this are just as valuable as someone who works full time on documenting open source projects, writes code or creating user interfaces. thanks for a fresh idea!

Re: Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR)

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Post by ujjvala »

stevefink wrote: post #3
_chap wrote: post #2

Thanks for the ups guys. As I said on the site I owe a lot of our success to the generous spirit of the open source community and wanted to give a little back. If you're interested in volunteering to take calls: http://www.railshotline.com/apply.html

chap, as I've mentioned before, I think this is yet another great way to contribute to open source. It's not always about writing code - projects like this are just as valuable as someone who works full time on documenting open source projects, writes code or creating user interfaces. thanks for a fresh idea!

Really great idea. Other opensource community should learn from this.

Re: Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR)

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Post by _chap »

ujjvala wrote: post #4
stevefink wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

chap, as I've mentioned before, I think this is yet another great way to contribute to open source. It's not always about writing code - projects like this are just as valuable as someone who works full time on documenting open source projects, writes code or creating user interfaces. thanks for a fresh idea!

Really great idea. Other opensource community should learn from this.

Thanks! If anybody else is interested in getting a community hotline setup, we've been working on making that really easy.

Shoot me an email: chap@pockethotline.com

Re: Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR)

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Post by joenorton »

_chap wrote: post #2

Thanks for the ups guys. As I said on the site I owe a lot of our success to the generous spirit of the open source community and wanted to give a little back. If you're interested in volunteering to take calls: http://www.railshotline.com/apply.html

Nice work Chap. This is good stuff.

Re: Rails Hotline (live phone help with RoR)

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Post by stevefink »

swombat wrote: post #5

So, I guess this is like going to Freenode#RubyOnRails, but for people who don't know what IRC is? You should absolutely, totally, utterly figure out a way to charge for this service.

The major distinction here is voice is much more personal and one on one than IRC. IRC can be intimidating for a novice, and let's be quite frank, many times people's IRC persona does not reflect who they are in real life. As someone who's been contributing to major networks such as EFnet for many years now - I've learned IRC can be a great tool for learning, but it can also be downright aggressive and humiliating, particularly to the majority of users who this service would be targeting.

A voice on the other hand is more personal, synchronous and on-demand. I think there's value there and that it's possible to charge for that additional value.

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