[luau] Re: Graphic art design

[Neal & Gay Timon]

----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Scott Belford" <sctinc at flex.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Cc: <bakere004 at hawaii.rr.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: [luau] Re: Graphic art design


| On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:34 am, Neal & Gay Timon wrote:
|
| >
| > I was also considering asking about hiring someone to help me (you
students
| > must still be hungry and need money).  That isn't my idea of spam, but
it
| > may not be something you want on this group.  Perhaps you would rather
just
| > reply that this group discourages that sort of request and suggest an
| > alternative.
|
| As a community very anxious to see newcomers like your self appreciate the
| joys and challenges of running linux, I must say that we are in desperate
| need of  list policy clarification.  I am certain that this will be done
in
| the next few days.  I am personally drafting our often talked about never
| completed list policy that I hope many will chew on and improve.
|
| For a person like yourself, there is no legitimate path of communication
to
| reach our linux community except for the LUAU mailing list.  I personally
do
| not have a problem with someone asking if there is help on the list.  This
is
| not of the same class of "spam" as posting to the list asking us to
purchase
| diet pills.  If your spam consists of trying to give money to the local
| community for help, then we need to find a way to digest this spam.
|
| I incorporated a business in Georgia years ago that I may finally "launch"
| here.  Maybe it will help.  The model is of an employee owned computer
| service company.  It can co-exist quite peacefully with LUGs (linux user
| groups).  A person like yourself requests help on the company's site, and
| registered "technicians" bid on it.  You can take the first bid or the
| lowest, depending on your rush.  You pay the service, the service pays the
| "technician" about 90% and keeps the little amount for overhead.  Every
| "technician" is an owner in the company proportional to the business they
| bring in, and as such have a proportional say over how the 10% is
allocated.
| As an Open Sourced business utilizing my principles of the Democratization
of
| Capitalism, all financial decisions are in the open and can be publicly
| decided.  Anyhow, just a tangent, but it may help in the future.
|
| In my humble opinion, it is okay to politely post your request for help.
|
| R. Scott Belford
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