[consulting] Closing down the consulting mailing list?

Tue Aug 24 04:45:53 UTC 2010

There's some internal debate about how we are going to be reforming the list, however, I think there is a general consensus that this is a completely appropriate venue to find consultants to work on your project. Thanks for your patience while we work out the internal debate issues and welcome to the list. :) Feel free to use it to find people to work with. 

Cheers,

-A
On Aug 23, 2010, at 10:40 PM, Teresa K Pudi wrote:

I joined this group recently because I was under the impression that I will be connected to skilled consultants.

After several Drupal projects with lots of hard work to select the skills desired this group seemed very atractive to me.

I was hoping to be able to reach out to this group for help on a project i am currently working on: a website redesign.

We are in the process of defining requirements and will be looking for developer(s) soon.

Is this the wrong group for me?  Is there another group U should be joining?

Please, advise...

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 23, 2010, at 8:26 PM, Therese Kells <therese.kells at gmail.com> 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> 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> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Michael Shmilov <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.
> 
> If we moved the conversation there, you could use those.
> 
> Regards,
> Greg
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