plug website idea

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 12:32, J.Francois wrote:
> 
> Try a google or dmoz search.
> 
> There are quite a few places for Linux consultants to register,
> like the Linux-Consultants-HOWTO which has become:
> http://tldp.org/LDP/lcg/Consultants-Guide.pdf
> or
> http://www.thelinuxreview.com/guide/consultants/
> and look under Arizona.
> 
> There are many more than the above listed all over the place.
> 
> Its not a problem finding a backup consultant, the problem is the
> wide range of what we/they charge per hour.
> 
------
Actually, I think that it is more the amount of people available, a
single list of people/businesses and the skill sets available. Then of
course, there's always the certifications...which we know you are there
with brainbench but as useless as MCSE's can be, it is a form of
certification.

I looked at linuxreview.com and that looked ok but of course there
wasn't much in terms of skill sets without drilling down to an
individual's own information.

Bill Lindley's illogics.com is a start. It is clumsy to move around in
and has too few people to be much of an assurance.

Anyway, I am disappointed that I only had one person express interest in
backup support role for RedHat and he disqualified himself because he is
religiously opposed to working on any computer that has sendmail
installed. I may end up going debian on this one after all...I'm going
to keep my options open on the proposal tomorrow but I wanted to tell
them that I had a list of people capable of support besides myself.
Looks like this won't get much of a mention.

I really think that if Plug had listings for consultants & help with
various distro's, daemons & applications that it would be a great
impetus towards making linux a viable option for new users. The mail
list is great and of course, there are a wide variety of mail lists but
sometimes...people just want to call someone and say...handle this for
me and I'll pay you or they just need to know that the windows rebooting
trick doesn't work here.

Craig