[Gllug] [slightly OT]: Linux volunteering

[Ian Norton]

well, i would give up large amounts of time to help, i would simply ask that it
not be to my detriment, (travel costs and a sandwich please) :-)

bred

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 08:55:32PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 08:16:17PM +0100, Ian Norton wrote:
> > i often say this to people i know (i moan about the cut throat attitude of pc
> > vendors when it comes to charity) i once knew a guy that worked for a firm who
> > were resellers/leasers in north west london who happily ripped off the RNLI for
> > about 200,000.
> > 
> > i would gladly volunteer my help to worthy charities, i am however broke, maybe
> > some rich linux/unix vendor could pay our travel costs :-)
> 
> There lies the root of the problem. We all need to drink beer (or do I mean 'eat' ?),
> so we can't afford to give a large %age of our time away - no matter how worthy
> the charity.
> 
> What we can do is to charge them a reasonable daily rate, recommend/install solutions
> that provide value for money, and sell them the hardware without huge markup[*]
> 
> The other thing is to be honest by putting in systems that can be maintained by
> others - too many that I have seen are all but impossible for others to pick up.
> 
> [*] I always sell them the h/ware at the price that I buy it, but charge for my time
> taken to specify/source/... it. It also means that I don't have a liability in the
> case of h/ware failure - I repair at cost & charge my time as per normal.
> 
> -- 
> Alain Williams
> 
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> 
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