| brobostigon | morning all. | 11:24 |
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| === ethan_ is now known as chippanfat | ||
| brobostigon | afternoonings chippanfat :) | 14:39 |
| TonyBurn | evening | 20:24 |
| brobostigon | noswaith dda TonyBurn | 20:24 |
| TonyBurn | lo | 20:25 |
| TonyBurn | raid card had a wobbler on the server today and took me off irc :o | 20:25 |
| brobostigon | :( | 20:25 |
| brobostigon | not good. | 20:26 |
| TonyBurn | no, luckily someone was around to hard reset it as i have no kvm | 20:26 |
| brobostigon | i see. | 20:27 |
| TonyBurn | pfffft, can i be arsed parsing or looking for a plugin to get my linkedin public cv onto my website | 20:27 |
| TonyBurn | might have aquick look to see if theres a wordpress plugin before i bother to think about writing anything | 20:28 |
| brobostigon | ok. | 20:28 |
| TonyBurn | so brobostigon, what do you work at? | 20:31 |
| brobostigon | TonyBurn: i am unemployed right now, but iused to do systems and office admin. | 20:34 |
| brobostigon | and bits of systems design and manegement. | 20:35 |
| TonyBurn | ahhh k, sorry to hear your unemployed :/ | 20:35 |
| TonyBurn | do you contribute to ubuntu/foss development at all? | 20:36 |
| brobostigon | TonyBurn: debian and ubuntu user support, help with the manegement of ubuntu-cym,user support within ubuntu-cym, testing and bug exploration of haiku-os, and user support within haiku-os and BeOS. | 20:37 |
| TonyBurn | nice | 20:39 |
| brobostigon | some of it is quite challenging, and not really recognised, but some if it, like haiku and beos is second nature. | 20:40 |
| TonyBurn | i need to get my ass into gear and do a little more | 20:42 |
| brobostigon | TonyBurn: my mind has been focused on recently, thinking about the design of a linux consultency/system design and sales company. | 20:43 |
| TonyBurn | yea? as a one man band? | 20:46 |
| brobostigon | probebly. | 20:46 |
| * brobostigon is hating the mathematics. | 20:47 | |
| brobostigon | TonyBurn: thats the bit, i will need help with. | 20:50 |
| TonyBurn | the maths?! | 20:51 |
| brobostigon | yes, iam awful at it. | 20:51 |
| TonyBurn | i dont understand how it is such an issue? is it a problem with regards to business accounting? | 20:53 |
| TonyBurn | or development? | 20:53 |
| brobostigon | the accounting as well as doing the planning of finanaces. | 20:53 |
| TonyBurn | if you;re a one man band what overheads are you going to incurr apart from broadband and a laptop? | 20:55 |
| TonyBurn | everything else is living expenses, ie business as usual | 20:55 |
| brobostigon | tools, and materials | 20:56 |
| brobostigon | most of the tools ihave already. | 20:57 |
| brobostigon | and then maybe a shop. | 20:57 |
| TonyBurn | most consultants i know cream at least 600 quid a day and have never needed any overheads such as a shop etc | 20:58 |
| brobostigon | TonyBurn: i am thinking ahead here. | 20:59 |
| TonyBurn | obviously i dont really know your strategy, business plans, end goals/objectives but if your talking about starting as a one man band i wouldn't burden yourself with overheads that aren't required, i'd address them if they ever are required due to an opportunistic gap in the market | 21:01 |
| brobostigon | TonyBurn: agreed, i want to start for myself. however i thinking that there might be a market for more consumer product in the future, ad therefore thinking about that, | 21:03 |
| TonyBurn | dunno what the situation is like locally for you but i'm not soo sure if there will ever be a market there on a local level | 21:10 |
| brobostigon | well, not striclkly locally, however withhin lets say, oxfordshire, or midlands. | 21:11 |
| brobostigon | for example. | 21:11 |
| brobostigon | and there is definatly a market, among certain people within allthe systems linux us used on, for example, tablets, mobilephones, netbooks, etc. | 21:13 |
| TonyBurn | so your targetting consumer rather then business? | 21:15 |
| TonyBurn | *you're | 21:15 |
| brobostigon | ah, business first. | 21:15 |
| brobostigon | TonyBurn: i would like to design a certain type of machine with haiku though, and another ide for something with android. | 21:31 |
| TonyBurn | thats all hobby stuff though unless you have a serious business plan behind it? | 21:37 |
| brobostigon | at the moment, yes, all just simple ideas. | 21:38 |
| TonyBurn | ok, yes hobby stuff can hit it right at times and generate lots of revenue, but unless your haiku machine s offering something unique i cant see what requirements it could be filling | 21:38 |
| TonyBurn | *is | 21:38 |
| brobostigon | it will be offerring some VERY unique things, | 21:39 |
| TonyBurn | that the consumer cant already get on a commercially supported platform? | 21:40 |
| brobostigon | yes. | 21:40 |
| TonyBurn | and most importantly, wants | 21:40 |
| brobostigon | yes. | 21:40 |
| TonyBurn | so you've got a vision statement of sorts alrady put together? | 21:41 |
| brobostigon | and doesnt exist already, on any existing platform. | 21:41 |
| brobostigon | the basics, yes. | 21:41 |
| TonyBurn | fair enough :) | 21:41 |
| TonyBurn | p'ah, usiness plans, visions statements etc etc | 21:42 |
| TonyBurn | feel like i'm back in work! | 21:42 |
| TonyBurn | rt, i'm gonna have to move, mrs is shouting at me for being on the computer | 21:42 |
| TonyBurn | laters | 21:42 |
| brobostigon | TonyBurn: the basis of it, i had when i was was at college, and designed then, and just needed the right hw and sw to exist, to echieve it. | 21:43 |
| brobostigon | TonyBurn: bye. | 21:43 |
| brobostigon | nos da,sleep well. | 22:19 |
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