[DUG] Work Wanted in Wellington

[John Bird]

This is a good conversation.
The last paragraph is the nub of it to me – is there more as a local Delphi community and developers we could be doing to improve the eco-system and computer literacy and quality of intellectual thinking?
The IT industry is no place for complacency – I do wonder at times if in NZ we do believe too much we do better than elsewhere.   Certainly Kiwis do a lot with minimal resources,   but we do not always do better.   After all Silicon Valley originated in Stanford, and not here.
[going only a bit off-topic]
I spent time recently in Stockholm and UK, and one of the overarching impressions was how far below those countries NZ is in intellectual pursuits of all kinds – reflected in general conversation, level of political debate, quality of university education, even the quality of TV which is vastly superior there.   For example BBC 4 will often show 4 quality documentaries in a row.   Whereas NZ boxes above its weight, a country like Sweden has only 8 million population and a vastly deeper engineering and intellectual culture – eClassic.com, Spotify, Skype, Volvo, Saab, Bofors, etc were all born there.
Its a particularly poignant point to Christchurch residents who are watching their city being rebuilt and hoping against hope that the stupid mistakes of the past are not repeated when we could build a really quality city.
For a salutary look at how well other cultures can do things – here is a video that went viral on Youtube 
“Stockholm its not a coincidence”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkdWUjdJyA
also how to do city transport - meant to bug anyone in any major NZ city:
http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/short-film-amsterdam-will-blow-your-mind-video.html
    a.. Right back to the original question specifically  – is there a shortage for essential Delphi skills in NZ compared to Oz and Switzerland?  What is lacking – training/size of talent pool/non-intellectual focussed culture/lack of or quality of IT industry training/Delphi community being less lively etc?
There is a lack of developers here. The ones that are more senior are happy in their current roles. Many have moved one to other languages or into management. Which is what I've been doing recently as well, but I still enjoy writing code. Also a lot of developers seem to come from one or two people teams that do everything, so introducing them to procedures, peer review, source control can be an interesting experience :-)
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