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

[Dan Krol]

Well unless you're trying to maintain some sort of particular culture, my
vote is to advertise it to the different techie lists in town. Better get a
variety and more people.

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Chad Glendenin <chad at glendenin.com> wrote:

> 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
> >> http://www.panopta.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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