[consulting] Closing down the consulting mailing list?

[Jeff Greenberg]

Welcome, Therese

On 08/23/2010 09:26 PM, Therese Kells wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I joined this group several years ago. I used to be an employment 
> recruiter back when companies still needed people like me. At the 
> time, I wrote to the group and asked if it was OK to look for Drupal 
> Consultants to support a project my current contract needed help on. 
> (bty I was an inside recruiter working under contract to a start up.) 
> No one, responded! So I sent out an email to the group, presenting 
> what I was given by my client. I received 3 responses and put them all 
> in touch with the hiring manager who could speak intelligently to the 
> project. (speaking intelligently to the project was a plus. I know 
> that is not always the case.) The manager was blown away. He had never 
> gotten such highly qualified folks so quickly. The project 
> unfortunately changed and was postponed. Such is the nature of start 
> ups. Why wouldn't you want someone like me to post project requests to 
> this group? It worked and everyone won. Sure the project changed but I 
> guarantee those consultants are still in this guys Rolodex. What harm?
>
> OK, so why am I still here? I'm self employed. You folks actually talk 
> intelligently to the ins and outs of being self employed. It's hard 
> work and it's lonely. It still beats the hell out of wage slavery. I 
> hardly ever write to you but I read what you have to say and gain from 
> the stuff that is pertinent to my situation. I have great deal of 
> gratitude to you for your tips and insights.
>
> Would you really kick me out because I'm not a Drupal consultant?
>
> Thanks,
> Therese
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com 
> <mailto:sam at samcohen.com>> wrote:
>
>     Serious question here:  Who is it that would make a decision such
>     as closing down this list?  Is this one person's decision?  A
>     committee?  How would it be decided, etc?
>
>     I just posted on DGO a suggestion to elect a moderator.  Let's let
>     anyone who would like to see the list go on and want to moderate
>     it post what they think the guidelines should be.  Then everyone
>     can vote for a moderator.  Seems that would be a way to make this
>     list serve the needs of its members in a fair way.
>
>     Sam
>
>
>
>     On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Greg Knaddison
>     <Greg at growingventuresolutions.com
>     <mailto:Greg at growingventuresolutions.com>> wrote:
>
>         On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Michael Shmilov
>         <yamdesigns at gmail.com <mailto:yamdesigns at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         > I think this list is very important but lately to much
>         off-topics.
>         > and obviously we can't expect someone to moderate/filter the
>         topics.
>         >
>         > How about making this list to an rss feed? I find it very
>         useful and we can
>         > easily browse it.
>
>         There are multiple rss feeds for every group on
>         groups.drupal.org <http://groups.drupal.org>.
>
>         If we moved the conversation there, you could use those.
>
>         Regards,
>         Greg
>
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