Lately I’ve been thinking ’bout wether I should write in Portuguese or in English. I mean, my “tech contacts” right now are all either abroad (with English as the only common language) or right in my backyard.
The latter group I go to college with and we talk and I tell them about stuff over a beer anytime. So there’s no need to write in Portuguese for them.
The few people I talk to ever since I’ve started out on this “let’s start coding for real” thing are the ones who in fact need me to write in English and since they’re the only audience this blog has I’m set, right? Just gotta write in English.
But then I ask myself if I shouldn’t start, along with trying to be more prolific in coding, also start being more verbose about code and about community issues and stuff, as a way to motivate more people to do the same.
Caio recently told me that he is resurrecting his blog so that he “would have to post something every once in a while and that’d push him into actually doing something he could then write about.”
And I think that does not only serve to motivate himself but to motivate others as well. At least for me, watching people do cool stuff makes me wanna do cool stuff. And the more contact I get with what people are doing the better. That’s why I want so much the idea of our little geek talks adventure to go on and on and to frutify into bunches of little free software hackers.
But that brings me back to the initial point. The hacker scene here in Brazil is still small and we need to get more people to “code for real” and build the kind of critical mass to establish a hacker ecosystem with high throughput and cooperation and exchange. I can’t even call myself part of that “scene” yet, but that’s where I wanna be and, when I’m there, I wanna see more people by my side.
I feel a bit disconnected with the people in here since I read mostly about what’s going on out there (which is where the heat is, unfortunately) , but I’ve watched the efforts of at least one guy who’s trying to motivate people in Brazil into building a tight community of hackers — more specifically, in the context of Ruby and Rails. He writes in Portuguese to be accessible, and interviews important people from out there and publishes the interviews in Portuguese and all. I feel like I have to take a part in that too.
What do you think?
