<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Kaliya * wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Just today I had someone contact me via linked in asking if I knew any </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">qualified drupal developers for a well funded project that wants some.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Could we please stop pretending that Drupal is some sort of secret club. Post an ad like this one</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/art/136010326.html">http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/art/136010326.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>which is then promptly followed up by a meet-up in the same city like this one <A href="http://drupal.org/node/49753">http://drupal.org/node/49753</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you want to actually help the situation you can help me write a page in the handbook "How to hire someone to develop your Drupal site".</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Any takers?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kieran</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>