It has been quite a while since the last entry to The Wandering Book has been made, but finally we have it! This time Adewale Oshineye, co-author (with Dave Hoover) of Apprenticeship Patterns gives us a gentle push as a community.

What have you made recently?

He rightly asks us what we have made, what we have learned by doing so and what is the next thing we are going to build.

Ade's entry in The Wandering Book

There is one thing in his entry though that really made me nod and be totally in tune. He talks about generative communities; groups of people with overlapping values that, together, create things that interact with the physical world (conferences, software, articles, devices, etc).

Having said that, I am working on this problem for a couple of months now, trying to find a way to give back to my community (here in Winchester) and enable the growth of other people; either in terms of software development (teaching how to build software) or by infecting them with goodness and the will to help each other.