[consulting] Purpose?

[jeff at ayendesigns.com]

I reach a different conclusion, though. Although I'm open to having it 
molded :)  I don't think that IRC is a better place. It's immediate, and 
many people don't have the time (or the time zone) to handle that, and 
unless you're there you miss things. I think a mailing list serves both 
purposes (discussion of consulting and all that goes with it, and 
discussion of consulting jobs), but I think that if you're going to talk 
about how you price things to your 'boss', how it is to work with 'that 
kind of boss' and anything else like that, you probably wouldn't do it 
one desk over from your boss, or in this case, in a list where it's 
likely that the buyer is present. My conclusion is that it might serve 
us better to have a consulting-topics list and a consulting-jobs list.

On 03/23/2011 12:03 PM, netsperience wrote:

>    Jeff,
>
> I have only recently joined this list. I agree with your observations:The recent "lowball" "motorcycle site" discussion was triggered by a
> client posting a job with a low budget. I think we may have scared the
> client away, or perhaps he found a consultant. There is no way to know.
>
> When I joined this list I thought it would be "about" consulting in all
> its aspects, including job offers, warnings about deadbeat clients,
> business tips, and above all a place for "consultants" to mingle. Some
> of the "developers" who contributed snarky comments to this discussion
> can indeed improve "consulting" skills and may reconsider that their
> hostile comments might scare away legitimate clients from this list
> and/or their own clientele.
>
> I think if people want to "discuss" being a consultant or developer,
> there are ample channels (IRC, for example, or BOFs at Drupal events).
>
> Truthfully, if this list becomes about one topic it will lose general
> interest.
>
> Randall Goya (decibel.places) http://netsperience.org
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