Lior, Shachar
Having been personally tarred and feathered over sending a commercial
newsletter to a number of people on the lis :-{)
I will join Shachar and second his motion that the list remain a
community/peer-support resource not a business network.
This is for a number of reasons-
a) a mailing list doesnt have the right functionality for a business
networking application
b) we all get too much spam anyhow
c) in my experience, linked-in has not been an effective tool - otoh - doing
successful projects, speaking to people and having a good website
with good content have been more effective for me. If linked-in works for
some people -great - it doesnt mean that we have to support it.
Danny Lieberman
www.software.co.il
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shachar Shemesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lior Kesos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: linkedin linux-il group followup...
> Lior Kesos wrote:
>
> >Hi shachar,
> >First of all I do not want to spam anyone, it's one of the required
> >steps I need to do to setup the group in linkedin.
> >
> But if you are going to live up to these requirement, I consider it a
> price the list has to pay. I want to know what does this price buy the
list.
>
> >1. Consultant hunt.
> >In that way he finds that a freelance consultent hosting a company
> >named GNULIN has the skillset he's looking for .
> >
> What's wrong with http://www.google.com/search?q=gnulin
>
> >The VP then contacts the consultant and they live happily forever in a
> >bidi heaven :).
> >
> And this serves the general list's interests.... how?
> I'm sorry. I don't doubt that some list members have a lot to gain from
> this. I don't even rule out the possibility that I may be one of them. I
> just don't think the list should be spammed, and people's emails given
> away, for this noble cause.
>
> >2. Member job hunt.
> >OK so we post job offers in the list but I know that I have disliked
> >list members posting stuff as. "hmm hey I'm looking forwork and I can
> >debug kernel oops with perl using python while witholding scsi cable
> >abuse..."
> >In this form You can simply play with the settings of you're profile
> >and label you're self with a "looking for a job offer"
> >
> And this is different than from http://haifux.org/jobs.html ... how?
>
> >Those are the IGLU tailored ones - beyond that there is the the normal
> >marketing mish mash that linkedin presents that can be viewed here...
> >www.linkedingroups.com/groupspdf/Linkedin_for_groups.pdf
> >
> Please, not more tons of text to read. This stuff is useful only if
> people use it. So far, the evidence doesn't suggest people do.
>
> >I believe that everybody holding a linux oriented job could possibly
> >benefit be it project job or business aquiantence they look ok
> >protecting privacy.
> >
> But Linux-IL is a community resource, not a business one. I vote - drop
it.
>
> >I'm happy and proud to be a part of IGLU all I want to do is to
> >communicate to the world which will need my services one day -
> >"This is IGLU it's an excellent place to find great developers,
> >creative innovators and non existing cabals" if you know somebody that
> >knows me and I'm _willing_ (profile attribute) to listen feel free to
> >contact me through one of my contacts.
> >
> I'm very proud of being a part of IGLU. I'm not so sure about being a
> part of LinkedIn. I didn't particularly liked it when Gabor gave them my
> email address, and I find the idea that we give them email addresses in
> bulk appalling. Sorry, I still vote no.
>
> >Hope this explains my motivation.
> >Lior.
> >
> >
> --
> Shachar Shemesh
> Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd.
> http://www.lingnu.com/
>
>
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