[consulting] Purpose?

[Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg]

er... that should have read: It's "about" consulting, which is to say it's
"for *consultants*".
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
<Alex at zivtech.com>wrote:

> It's "about" consulting, which is to say it's "for consulting".
>
> "A mailing list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting
> providers."
>
> It doesn't say anything about what should or shouldn't be discussed, just
> who is doing the discussing.
>
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> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:16 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.
>>
>> 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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