[ale] ALE as business partner?

[Jim Kinney]

I'm past pizza bribes.

expensive scotchs and Irish whiskeys, however...

Well, let's just say I've been known to do some hard drive recovery on a
windows machine to reclaim a multi-TB pile of music and videos. photo-rec
is my friend!


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:41 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> We must be from vastly different backgrounds! In "Linux at work"
> (Goncalves, 1999) it specifically mentions pizza bribes.
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> Leam
>  -- ghost-writer at large   :P
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> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> HA!
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>> Linux geeks are more focused on the project/task/learning potential and
>> are not as easily swayed by food bribes.
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>> or they have much worse ADHD...
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>> Bring out the booze and all bets are off.
>>
>> Hmm. screw the vi vs emacs! Lets have an IRON LIVER competition between
>> windows weenies and unix wizards!
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>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com>wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, leam hall wrote:
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>>>  Jim, understood. On the other hand, the ALE Jobs list is a great
>>>> resource for recruiters. They
>>>> would probably pay a little to subscribe. Maybe more if the person was
>>>> "vetted" by peers.
>>>>
>>>> That said, where the money goes and how to define "vetted" is up for
>>>> grabs. I'm much better at
>>>> helping people plot a course for improvement than figuring out how to
>>>> build a business.
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>>> The local (grumble grumble..) .NET/ASP users group often has a regional
>>> recruiting company as a sponsor. At a minimum, they show up with pizza and
>>> beverages and get a short plug at the meeting. Sometimes they are involved
>>> with or support the costs of the guest speaker. I haven't been for a while,
>>> but during a few months there seemed to be competition between Modis and a
>>> couple of other agencies and the offers to be a sponsor got fairly plush.
>>> ie: Food, beverage, a respected industry speaker, schwag and demo software
>>> to give away...
>>>
>>> When I was involved in AITP and ASTD, similar things happened.
>>> I miss the days of "death by chocolate" being sponsored by Cisco.
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>>>
>>> We've tried this at Chugalug's, but it has not worked out the same.
>>> Different social and professional group? Less organized?
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*Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
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