Re: [gentoo-dev] Paid support

[Alastair Tse <liquidx@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 23:00 +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> On 9/2/06, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > It might be worth putting together a list of folks interested in doing
> > this on the Gentoo website, under a Third-party Paid Support section. We
> > already have a Support link on the top of www.g.o, it could be on that page.
> 
> We'll also need to sort out a process for handling complaints against
> developers from the folks they help.  Doesn't matter how well we make
> it clear that these folks are "independent"; their actions will
> reflect on Gentoo as a whole, and unhappy customers _will_ complain to
> us sooner or later.  Rather than pretent it won't happen, better we're
> pro-active and have something prepared.

I think this is a great idea. If not for paid support, but just a list
of names of developers who are willing to do some freelance consulting
on setting up machines with Gentoo or to debug a problem, etc. I'm sure
there are people who have ended up with a Gentoo machine, but can't hire
a full time dev and would just like to pay someone to handle certain
issues.

I landed some freelancing where one of the reasons I was found was
because I did work for Gentoo, and they have some gentoo servers that
needed to be setup properly and securely.

I'm putting my hand up to help set this up if it is more effort than
putting up a single page on the web site :)

Cheers,

Alastair

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