Afraid I've dug myself into a hole
davidw: Here are a couple of ideas:* Like other people said, start doing some projects in interesting languages.  Preferably, they should be open source projects so that you can get feedback about what you're doing, and meet other people.* If you want to do something that's not too far from SAP, is open source, and could use some good hackers, OFBiz is an interesting project: http://ofbiz.apache.org/