Disclaimer: I've known punch_card_don for quite a while, and we've also discussed this idea over E-Mails and CB messages ..
I think it would be very useful to have a new section in Perlmonks to do with Professional Perl or Independent Perl.
This would include
- Discussion about how to promote your business locally and globally
- Discussion or recommendations on the production readiness of various modules
- Ways to explain licensing to clients
- Perl friendly web providers
This would not include
Thoughts? Comments?
Alex / talexb / Toronto
"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds
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I'm all for it, perhaps because I'm the only working programmer within a 60 mile radius and have only met two of my clients in all the years I've been doing this. If I talk around here about what I do, eyes glaze over and then I am asked to go to someone's house to fix a computer. So I don't talk about what I do, and just let the neighbors suppose that I'm a slug living off of his wife's income. :D
One of the two clients I've met paid me half of my customary rate for a day out on an all expenses paid, professionally guided steelhead fishing trip. Darn good client, that one.
I wholeheartedly agree that it would be inappropriate to allow help/work wanted articles here.
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