----------------original message----------------- From: "Chris Travers" [email protected] To: "LedgerSMB Users" [email protected] Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:44:40 -0700 ------------------------------------------------- > Hi all; > > I wanted to send out an email here with suggested guidelines for > mentioning paid services on this list. In general I personally think > there is a place for this here, but I don't think any of us want every > request for help to be answered only with offers for paid help. So I > figured I would offer some thoughts and guidelines for comment and see > what people think. > > One of the important features of an open source community is the > ability of people to find service providers that can meet their needs > so that they don't have to do everything themselves. One aspect of > helping users out may be to suggest paid services from time to time. > The main goal of these guidelines is to ensure we keep things > reasonable. > > Here are a few proposed Do's and Dont's..... > > DO: > * Feel free to offer paid services to those who need it, integrated > into other helpful tips. Things like "Here are some ways you can get > going.... On the other hand, if you'd like paid hosting, we can set > it up, and host it for you" is a good thing. It gives a user a few > options and the user can then decide what to do. > > * Participate in the community in a wide variety of ways. Users are > generally happier to hire people with track records in the community > than those who simply use the community to only advertise their > services. > > * If you want to advertise your paid services in an email signature, > by all means go for it. > > DON'T > * Reply to every request for help with an offer to help for a fee. > > * Limit your participation in the community to offering paid help. > > * Be uncivil, disrespectful to the rest of the community, etc. > > One aspect of keeping a lot of this on the list is that it helps users > out by ensuring some transparency and providing a wide range of > options for going forward. > > What do people think? Any additional guidelines? Do people like > these or do people think these are the wrong direction? > > Best Wishes, > Chris Travers >
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