The extent of my coding knowledge is limited to the most basic of html, but I still found this fascinating. As a methodology for business, it's something that applies to far more than open source and I wish I saw more often. Instead of competing to get people with an existing skill set and treating them like a finite resource, use a little extra time and patience to train people yourself and if done correctly, you not only expand your talent pool exponentially, you also create loyalty. The companies who tend to get first pick aren't necessarily the ones who pay the most extravagant salaries; they're often the ones who are just considered cool to work for. Someone who not only chooses passion over experience but is willing to take the time to shape that passion into a needful tool is, in my opinion, the very definition of "cool to work for."