[consulting] Closing down the consulting mailing list?
Don
donald at fane.com
Tue Aug 24 10:47:45 UTC 2010
I know that programmers tend to be control freaks, but this whole "do
what I say or we'll close the list" seems way over board. Some of you
are letting occasional topics that for some obsessive compulsive reason
you can't ignore and just delete ruin a list that works just fine. If I
leave the list, it will be from the temper tantrums, not the so called
off-topic conversations.
-Don-
On 8/24/2010 12:45 AM, Adam Mordecai wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>> <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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