Okay, so Patrick has laid down the gauntlet and I’m of a mind to pick it up but there’s a sticking point which is that I must earn a living. I simply can’t dedicate time to work on Jini documentation, books etc for free and it seems no-one else is willing to either. So, inspired by a tongue-in-cheek comment from Cameron and some other conversations, I have a tentative, likely insane proposition for feedback/consideration:

I’m thinking about something I’ll call “micro-consulting”. Normally people pay me by the day or the week to complete some agreed upon set of work products. What if I were to offer my time via the web an hour at a time to write documentation or code tackling some aspect of Jini usage? What if the entity paying for the hour of my time got to dictate or choose the subject I focused on? Perhaps the way to do this is to get together a list of possible projects, after which I would provide a “quote” for the work and then have people place sufficient “bids” against a piece of work to cover my quote. Whichever piece of work met it’s quote first would be the next piece of work I’d pickup.

Just a thought……..