[geeklog-devel] Geeklog Service offering

[Blaine Lang]

On, Friday, January 10, 2003 Tom Willet said:
> 2)  Tony -- I would not be so quick to turn down Blaines offer.  As I
> mentioned earlier, you had better like business, because you will be
spending
> more time doing that than programming.  There is room for a lot of Chief's
in
> a business, I would rather be chief programmer and architect than CEO.
> Blaine does have prior business experience.

Ok .. brief BIO:
- 11 years with Hewlett-Packard - 7 years in Service Org and 5 years in
their Consulting Org
- 4 Years with Fidelity Investments: Manager of Computer Operations -
LAN/WAN 24x7 DataCenter and Operations
- 4 Years Arqana Consulting: Director of Professional Services
- 1 Year Contract: Ascenda (ASP Spin off of Sprint) Director of Service
Delivery
- Last 2 years:  Nextide: One of 3 Partners with a 7 employee consulting
company specializing in Collaborative Solutions.

- Oh and I forgot - 10 years Farming experience.

Like Tom.. I really got started in developement with Dbase II - then III and
then QuickSilver ( a clipper like compiler and language environment).

Cheers,
Blaine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Willett" <tomw at pigstye.net>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Geeklog Service offering


> Once again I cannot keep my mouth shut.  Several points I would like to
> comment on:
>
> 1)  Name change from Geeklog would be natural when Geeklog 2 comes out.
We
> could even position it as (lets say Cherry is the name agreed upon).
Geeklog
> 2 could be Geeklog Cherry like Microsoft Windows just normally dropping
the
> Geeklog and calling it Cherry.
>
> 2)  Tony -- I would not be so quick to turn down Blaines offer.  As I
> mentioned earlier, you had better like business, because you will be
spending
> more time doing that than programming.  There is room for a lot of Chief's
in
> a business, I would rather be chief programmer and architect than CEO.
> Blaine does have prior business experience.
>
> 3)  I would make it clear from the start that all code remained GPL.  Even
> custom code.  I have done custom modifications for several of my customers
> and one of my stipulations is that it remains my code.  No one has
objected
> to the point of losing business.
>
> 4)  I would emphasize again.  If the target audience is small and medium
> businesses, the need for an organized point of contact.  They will not
stand
> for email only contact system.  When they show up at work at 8 in the
morning
> and find their web down, they want to be able to make a phone call and
take
> care of it.  Their day is hectic and quicker they can take care of
something
> (and here taking care of it is being sure someone is taking care of it)
the
> happier they are.
>
> 5)  Small businesses especially like one point of contact -- agreements
with
> a or multiple hosting companies we can work with will be essential.  If
the
> web site goes down the small businessman wants to call one person and take
> care of it.  Not us then we tell them its the hosting company and the
hosting
> company says its us.  We need to be willing to find the problem and solve
it
> even it its not our problem.  You earn lots of business that way.
>
> --
> Tom Willett
> tomw at pigstye.net
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