I completely agree with your point about mentoring someone one on one and in fact have been doing that for a little over a year with someone. He just started at an entry level tech job a few months back so booyah there :-). The experience has been very rewarding (and far more challenging than I anticipated). My skills are the product of mentoring from a kind stranger (now a close friend) so I definitely intend to do more of that.
But anyways, I still went along with it because I am hoping someone who was like me will show up, and then I can teach them. But I feel that the actual classes they have are more like motivational feel good TED talks as opposed to being actually useful.
1 point by hienyimba 1 day ago | parent | on: Ask HN: Best way to donate my dev skills?
Wow. thank God I saw this. I am based in a developing nation (one of the biggest in the world) and just started working on a project to make govt. officials responsible to the people. For so long, corruption has been the bane of my society and i truly feel i have a chance to change my country.
Kindly contact me at hienyimba@gmail.com ... God bless you.
By the way, here is some validation - http://techmoran.com/ceo-weekends-18-year-old-nigerian-youth...