[consulting] Future of the Consultants Group... groups.drupal.org

[Christoph Weber]

While I can understand Sam's concerns, I think the benefits of g.d.o
as outlined by Shai outweigh the negatives. Let's do it!

Regarding anonymity: It doesn't exist, whether a list is archived or
not. Stuff just comes back to bite you if you are unlucky. Keep up
your integrity, worry less, and go about your work.

This is the first time I speak up around here although I've been
subscribed for a while, so hi everybody! Keep the good stuff coming.

Christoph

On 3/6/09, Sam Cohen <sam at samcohen.com> wrote:
> One reason to keep it here would be a certain amount of anonymity and the
> ability to talk shop among consultants that your next client can't look up
> and hold against you.
>
> Personally, I think a list like this shouldn't even have archives.
>
> I suppose you can also use an assumed identity.
>
> It's not that we are going to be saying anything negative, but it's nice to
> have a place to ask other professionals questions without it being known by
> prospective clients that you don't know the answer.
>
> Sam
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:
> >
> > Gang,
> >
> > While we are thinking about the meaning and purpose of this group...
> >
> > With the Drupal.org redesign, it looks like the possibility of migrating
> this list serve to groups.drupal.org with full list serve/email mirroring
> will be possible. My understanding about why this group isn't already on
> groups.drupal.org is because some people really like the "push" and prefer
> to engage in this kind of conversation via email as opposed to a web forum.
> If groups.drupal.org ends up enabling mailhandler and webtomail modules,
> which I think they will, the result could be the best of both worlds.
> >
> > There are huge advantages to these kinds of conversations happening on a
> drupal.org web property. The ability to find them, tag them, reach out to
> new members is huge. In addition, I find the head shots that are enabled on
> groups.drupal.org to be really important. It reminds me that I'm working
> with other people... AND makes it easier to spot people at DrupalCon! There
> are many other reasons.
> >
> > So the question... are there any reasons you have for not wanting to move
> this conversation to groups.drupal.org... once groups has enabled full email
> mirroring?
> >
> > Shai