[consulting] Purpose?

[Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg]

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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