Hi, I have a joined a group called the "Interactive Business Circles" (http://www.ibcil.com). This is a group of small businesses which meet once a week to promote each other from various businesses - from alternative healers and tarot readers to lawyers and accountants.
What does this have to do with FLOSS? This may not come as a surprise to most of you, but small businesses and home office are not exposed enough to FLOSS, and this might be the forum to advance this area. The worst of it is that the people with the technical abilities (computer techs and site builders ) actually do their clients a dis-service, by avoiding FLOSS. An example: more and more of those business have web sites. Most are build around proprietary CM'S systems, flash, windows-1225 encoding and non-standard html/css. Those people then pay additional funds for "promoting" their sites on search engines. On this list we have quite a few freelancers and small business who make a living on IT and FLOSS. Merging both can promote both our our business, the FLOSS cause and other Israeli business. One thing to note: Most of those groups already have a "Computer Guy" on the roster, so other title / function will be needed. I am thinking mainly of site builders, VoIP solution providers, online backup providers, CRM solutions and so on. If interested, contact me off-list. Comments, thought and flames - on list. Gil P.S. There is another organization called "Business Network International" (http://www.bni-israel.com) which does the same. -- Gil Freund, Systems Analyst ------------------------------------------- Sysnet consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.sysnet.co.il voice: +972-54-2035888, Fax: +972-8-9356026 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
