On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > Maybe I'm living in my own fantasy world, but what I envision is a bunch of > independent IT consultants working together to provide solutions > for the bizs in this town. Such that maybe 1 person does the server / desktop > OS, virtualization. Another person designs and implements the network. > Another person does web dev. And another person puts in Asterisk VOIP. I like > this vision of Portland and I will continue to walk around this > town with my rose colored glasses on... >
There are many people who share your fantasy; and I believe there are and have been quite a few groups around doing this very thing. Of course, there are many different ways of organizing these. Some of the groups specialize in serving a particular industry. Others serve a broader customer base in a more limited geographic area. In any case, if you are interested in doing something like this I would check around to see if you might fit into some existing group such as POSSE or OpenSourcery or one of many others; and if you can't find an existing group then I would suggest getting together with a number of other potential independent IT consultants and starting something. Also, although you might first explore this with some potential independent IT consultants I wouldn't restrict it to potential independent IT consultants for very long; because you will also need people with marketing and sales and finance skills. David _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
