[consulting] Purpose?

[Laura Scott]

Historically this list has been for the business of consulting, and related topics. Development-related questions have been on the development list (and the appropriateness of that has been a heavy conversation in the past couple of weeks, if you haven't been following along there) or (better) in IRC, d.o and the new stackexchange drupal community.

Laura
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On Mar 23, 2011, at 9:16 AM, jeff at ayendesigns.com wrote:

> The recent thread has reminded me that I was going to ask something long ago and forgot all about it: what is the intended purpose of this list? I don't mean this to imply anything negative, facetious, etc. I'm curious for two reasons. One is that I don't know whether it is intended to be 'about' consulting or 'for' consulting. That is, is it meant to be a jobs list, or about the business of Drupal consulting? It's fine with me either way, but certainly people need a place to bitch about their work and their clients that is probably best not being the same place where potential clients are looking for help, and it seems the list is bein used for both, which causes me to wince quite often.
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> The other is based on what I often see implied, that 'developer' and 'consultant' are interchangeable terms, where being even a top developer doesn't mean the person has 1 ounce of consulting skills necessarily, nor that they do any consulting, and, likewise, a consultant doesn't necessarily need to write one line of code. At the extreme end, they can be consulting higher up in the client food chain on a strategic level, or at an architectural level, etc., and so I wonder whether there is an intention for the list to be about the business of consulting, or about the business (as opposed to the craft) of developing/site building/theming. Again, it doesn't matter to me whether it's all the above...just wanna hear what people think.
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