[consulting] Established clients seeking technical training.

[Antonio P. P. Almeida]

I agree with the general sentiment. The basic issue is how value your
time. If you prefer not to give training than either say so or charge
more. But charge more not with a mindset of milking, nobody likes to
be milked for $, but as a time valuing device. Strictly business.

Also avoid is falling in the fixed quantity fallacy. Thinking that is
an either/or problem. There's plenty of opportunities, just keep
yourself open to the possibilities.

Like Trevor says, it's one of the many distinguishing features of
free software, vis-à-vis proprietary, to be open and transparent all
the way.

In the end more openness will bring you more business.

Regards,
--- appa


On 17 Nov 2009 19h30 WET, trevortwining at gmail.com wrote:



> I'll tell you a bit about my experience.
>
> About a year ago I decided that I would mentor one person in Drupal
> for a period of one year. They already had to know a bit about it,
> and be open to learning and making mistakes. They had to agree to be
> a good student, and I, in turn, would teach them whatever I could
> about project management, development, theming, config, and dealing
> with clients. We would spend lots of time on IM and co-working
> (locally, although probably not required) and in that time I
> basically trained him how to do my job.
>
> A few really amazing things happened during that process.
>
> * He learned things about Drupal that I didn't know, and shared them
> * with me.
> * I learned things about Drupal that I didn't know, and I shared
>   them
> * with him as well.
> * Once he reached a certain level of competence, we were able to do
> * things together with Drupal that neither of us would have been able to
> * separately.
> * He's become a really good friend, and now our entire families are very
> * close.
>
> That's the experience I've had with sharing my skills in
> Drupal. There's an abundance of opportunities out there. If you're
> not sharing, you're not seeing those opportunities for what they
> are. If you don't see them, then you're not looking hard enough.
>
> PS: I'm at the point where I'm considering a new mentoring
> relationship, so If you know of anyone that's interested, please let
> me know.
>
> Trevor Twining
> Points of Light Institute
> http://pointsoflight.org
>
> Sharing == Growth == Profit. It's the new open source math. :D