Participating in a community forum is sometimes the best way to get up to speed. Members share their questions, opinions, and experience. Often there’s a resident expert or two who helps the group. The quality of the answers may vary, and the quantity of traffic can be large, but here are some of the best. Visit them and you may (virtually) bump into one of us as we stop by to give some advice:
UML-Forum: With over 1000 members, this is one of the largest groups; Cris Kobryn, the leader of the U2P team, moderates it. (http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/uml-forum/)
The OOAD_UML group: This group is probably even more active than the UML-Forum. (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OOAD_UML/)