[Chicago] separate mailing list for consultants/contractors/freelancers?

[Chad Glendenin]

I went ahead and created a Google Group for it:
http://groups.google.com/group/chicago-tech-freelancers

I was thinking of a language-agnostic group, but focused on Chicago,
so people could talk about stuff like, "hey, you should go to my
accountant, who's on Michigan Avenue." I guess I was also thinking it
would be for general questions about how to run a freelance tech
business, so it would be relevant to some Rails developers I know.

Do you think a Python-specific list makes more sense?

ccg


On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Carl Karsten <cfkarsten at gmail.com> wrote:
> Should this be a python.org list, or a more language nutella list?
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Jason Abate <jason at panopta.com> wrote:
>> Agreed, I think this could be very valuable.
>>
>> -jason
>>
>> Jason Abate
>> jason at panopta.com
>> Panopta | We see it all
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>>
>>
>> Tom Printy wrote:
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> I would like to join such a list...
>>>
>>>
>>> -Tom
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 18:07 -0500, Chad Glendenin wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> There was a brief discussion about this idea at the last ChiPy
>>>> meeting... Would anybody be interested in a separate mailing list for
>>>> people who do consulting, contracting, and other kinds of technical
>>>> freelance or entrepreneurial work? The idea is that it would be open,
>>>> so it wouldn't be a place to discuss sensitive/private things like
>>>> rates or clients, but it would be a place to talk about stuff like
>>>> which tools to use, and best practices, and things like that. Things
>>>> that independent Python developers might be interested in, but would
>>>> be off-topic for ChiPy itself. It should also be relevant beyond
>>>> Python users (freelance PHP and Rails developers come to mind). For
>>>> example, is FreshBooks or Harvest a better invoicing tool? What do you
>>>> use for accounting? How do you keep track of your income or your
>>>> business expenses?
>>>>
>>>> If such a list already exists, please let me know (I didn't find
>>>> anything with a basic Google search).
>>>>
>>>> Also, feel free to contact me privately, because, as I said, it's
>>>> related to Python but still mostly off-topic for ChiPy.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> ccg
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