Freaky mentoring story

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So my friend sends me posts on Craigslist about Drupal.
One of them asked for some simple basic help, and I offered to meet him in exchange for a beer (which became a Vitamin Water at my discretion).
It turned out that he is someone my family knew almost 20 years ago, a newspaper publisher for whom my wife wrote book reviews!
The simple solution to his problem posting JS tags for ads was to turn off the WYSIWYG editor - his offshore developers never explained that step to him :P
(an important lesson for Mentors: do not assume your student knows things)
He also has a Guerilla Journalism group that meets in Brooklyn on Mondays. I offered to help them with a Drupal Gardens site.