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You're right, I need to do that. I totally forgot that we even had mini profiles on here. I'll add my company on there.

TheElder 17y ago
Is that your home address? If so, get a PO Box. "Leftnode Software is a new, small, and socially progressive software company". Why would you even mention that you are socially progressive? I do my best to shelter my clients of my political views. I don't mind theirs, and I wouldn't want them to not pick me because we disagree politically.
- leftnode 17y ago
  Socially progressive in the software market == we like open source software and contribute back to it. I'll make it more evident. No, thats a real business address, we have a real office.
  - davidw 17y ago
    Open source is mostly apolitical, so I'd just say open source if that's what you mean.
  - TheElder 17y ago
    Yeah, that part confused me. I thought you meant politically progressive, which is fine, but might turn away customers.
    - leftnode 17y ago
      I am politically progressive, but you're right, I should make the distinction more obvious.
      - mahmud 17y ago
        Your package includes "Google Email - Gmail"; try to rephrase that so clients don't think you're charging them for a @gmail.com signup. Don't even mention google, just call it "your own me@mywebsite.com email".
    - camccann 17y ago
      On the other hand, there's usually a (small-ish, but relatively loyal) market for companies that promote and affirm the political and/or religious beliefs of their customers. The trick there is to present yourself as "on their side" without taking too many concrete positions on issues, so as to avoid alienating sub-groups. e.g., companies that want to be "green" or "eco-friendly" should avoid saying anything about nuclear power. In this case, if one is promoting a company as open source-oriented, it's best to avoid: 1) Partisan US politics: one side angers the socialists, the other upsets the libertarians. 2) Anything that might provoke the Free Software vs. Open Source feud, including proxy issues like GPL vs. BSD. 3) Negative remarks about Apple, lots of people in the open source crowd like their products even though they're a very non-open company. On the other hand, making fun of Microsoft would be fairly safe as long as it's kept professional (gentle satire and such) and doesn't sink to slashdot levels.

Is that your home address? If so, get a PO Box. "Leftnode Software is a new, small, and socially progressive software company". Why would you even mention that you are socially progressive? I do my best to shelter my clients of my political views. I don't mind theirs, and I wouldn't want them to not pick me because we disagree politically.

leftnode 17y ago
Socially progressive in the software market == we like open source software and contribute back to it. I'll make it more evident. No, thats a real business address, we have a real office.
- davidw 17y ago
  Open source is mostly apolitical, so I'd just say open source if that's what you mean.
- TheElder 17y ago
  Yeah, that part confused me. I thought you meant politically progressive, which is fine, but might turn away customers.
  - leftnode 17y ago
    I am politically progressive, but you're right, I should make the distinction more obvious.
    - mahmud 17y ago
      Your package includes "Google Email - Gmail"; try to rephrase that so clients don't think you're charging them for a @gmail.com signup. Don't even mention google, just call it "your own me@mywebsite.com email".
  - camccann 17y ago
    On the other hand, there's usually a (small-ish, but relatively loyal) market for companies that promote and affirm the political and/or religious beliefs of their customers. The trick there is to present yourself as "on their side" without taking too many concrete positions on issues, so as to avoid alienating sub-groups. e.g., companies that want to be "green" or "eco-friendly" should avoid saying anything about nuclear power. In this case, if one is promoting a company as open source-oriented, it's best to avoid: 1) Partisan US politics: one side angers the socialists, the other upsets the libertarians. 2) Anything that might provoke the Free Software vs. Open Source feud, including proxy issues like GPL vs. BSD. 3) Negative remarks about Apple, lots of people in the open source crowd like their products even though they're a very non-open company. On the other hand, making fun of Microsoft would be fairly safe as long as it's kept professional (gentle satire and such) and doesn't sink to slashdot levels.