Re: New policy for http://www.debian.org/consultants/
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Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
| On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:35:49PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
|
|>I dislike the "nearest big city" idea, though. I live and
|>work in an area with a small city nearby and then four bigger
|>cities surrounding me. Most of my work comes from the nearest
|>and furthest of those cities. Grouping by English region or
|>county also splits me from them, but customers seem to check
|>neighbouring areas. I'm not sure why they only check one city
|>listing, but that's what seems to happen, as far as I can tell.
|
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| I would also have problems with appointing the "best" city for
| a commercial match. For us (in Belgium), Belgium (the country)
| would be a far better match than any city (and why not use
| "state"or US based business ?).
In practice it won't be used if not necessary (there are not much
consultants listed in Belgium).
| So my suggestion is to replace "close big city" with
| "description of your region" (and than everyone can choose
| if that is "Ottawa" or "Northern California" or "Leuven"
| or "Europe").
Normally it should be possible to find the region when you know the
'close big city', nothing prevents someone to mention more than one
'close big city'.
Cheers
Luk
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