--- title: "Help the Tsunami Victims of Banda Aceh - Buy an hour of Top-Notch Consulting" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/20/help-the-tsunami-victims-of-banda-aceh-buy-an-hour-of-top-no.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/20/help-the-tsunami-victims-of-banda-aceh-buy-an-hour-of-top-no.html" published: "2005-01-20T11:49:00" updated: "2005-01-20T11:49:00" tags: ["Community"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "\" It looks like Scott was the first to blog this... A bunch of us, championed by Julia Lerman and Stephen Forte are going to auction an hour each of our consulting time to benefit the Tsunami victims of Banda Aceh . ALL…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Help the Tsunami Victims of Banda Aceh - Buy an hour of Top-Notch Consulting By Roy Osherove January 20, 2005 In [Community](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community) **Historical article** · Originally published January 20, 2005; technical details may be outdated. "_It looks like_ [_Scott_](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,66fd8fe6-d3da-493d-b867-9bfdeefe97fa.aspx) _was the first to blog this..._ _A bunch of us, championed by_ [_Julia Lerman_](http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/ "http") _and_ [_Stephen Forte_](http://www.stephenforte.net/owdasblog/ "http") _are going to auction an hour each of our consulting time to benefit the_ [_Tsunami victims of Banda Aceh_](http://www.acehaid.org/ "http")_.  **ALL** of the money will go to help the victims._ _Within the next 48 hours the auctions will appear on_ [_eBay_](http://www.ebay.com/ "http")_. Links will be posted as soon as they show up. Here are the participants._ **[_Michelle Leroux Bustamante_](http://www.dasblonde.net/ "http")_, [Jonathan Goodyear](http://aspsoft.blogs.com/ "http"),_ [_Andrew Brust_](http://citigatehudson.com/news/news_2004_09_08.htm "http")_,_ [_Richard Campbell_](http://www.campbellassociates.ca/blog/ "http")_,_ [_Adam Cogan_](http://www.ssw.com.au/SSW/Employees/employeesprofile.aspx?EmpID=AC "http")_,_ [_Malek Kemmou_](http://www.malekkemmou.ma/ "http")_,_ [_Jackie Goldstein_](https://osherove.com/JackieG "http")_,_ [_Ted Neward_](http://www.neward.net/ted/weblog/ "http")_,_ [_Kathleen Dollard_](http://gendotnet.com/blog/ "http")_,_ _Hector M Obregon, [Patrick Hynds](http://www.criticalsites.com/phynds/ "http"), [Fernando Guerrero](http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/fguerrero/ "http"), [Kate Gregory](http://www.gregcons.com/kateblog/ "http"), [Joel Semeniuk](https://osherove.com/jsemeniuk "http"), [Scott Hanselman](http://www.computerzen.com/ "http"), [Barry Gervin](http://www.objectsharp.com/blogs/barry "http"), [Clemens Vasters](http://staff.newtelligence.net/clemensv/ "http"), [Jorge Oblitas](http://www.icuadrado.com/ "http"), [Stephen Forte](http://www.stephenforte.net/owdasblog/ "http"), Jeffrey Richter, [John Robbins](http://www.wintellect.com/about/instructors/instructorbios.aspx?id=2 "http"), [Jeff Prosise](http://www.wintellect.com/weblogs/wintellect/ "http")._** _..."_ \[For more details - [read Jackie's weblog](http://weblogs.asp.net/jackieg/archive/2005/01/19/356295.aspx)\] ## More in Community [All posts in Community](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community) - Jan 23, 2005 ### [How to register for .NET user groups in Israel](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/23/how-to-register-for-net-user-groups-in-israel.html) - Jan 23, 2005 ### [Reminder: .Net astronauts user group meeting today](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/23/reminder-net-astronauts-user-group-meeting-today.html) - Jan 18, 2005 ### [Announcing: First Agile Israel user group meeting this month!](https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/18/announcing-first-agile-israel-user-group-meeting-this-month.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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