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Professional Full Time Consultants - In Munich (München), Germany

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Table Data Format

• Consultants are indexed in Geographical Order,
  • Geographic location, Not by postal address. country first, to help firms find a physically local consultant.
  • Address in complete reverse geographic order, (country first) just as a Martian would need, flying in on you for the first time from Mars to your part of Earth.
  • Any local in-country customs you may have for giving addresses in partially inverted & partially Not inverted order, (as on envelopes)are not acceptable.
  • Location of the local office within the company that supplies FreeBSD consultants , so customers can know how local/near the supplier is, (as this can affect tavel time & costs, emergency response time to arrive at customer site, availability for short notice face to face meetings etc).
  • Not the postal address on an envelope.
  • Not: the main, official. owning, parent, boss. holding, superior office, larger department, PO box, postal reception address somewhere else, that also deals with things other than solely BSD consultancy.
  • Where your physical office or home town is, where your FreeBSD support staff work & travel from to visit customers.

• Country, Region, City & Postcode, Street:

  • Country

    • Real names normal people say, eg America, Britain, China, Germany, Taiwan.
    • Not names deriving from politicians names of historicly aspiring political / grandiosity.
    • Simple country names, devoid of allusions to state's histories, fictions, religions, & preferences.
    • No United States of , United Kingdom of, Federal / Democratic Republic of , Great Socialist People's ... Arab Jamahiriya
    • No acronyms deriving from such multi word names.
      • Some countries names get initials changed & reshuffled in other languages; how many know what RFA is, & RFD ?
      • Most never knew what FRD & DDR were, but most knew West & East Germany,
      • Few known for certain without checking if ROC is mainland China or island Taiwan.
    • No interest if a Kingdom, or a Republic, or claims to be United (centuries back perhaps) or Federal or a sometimes spurious claim to be Democratic (DDR) or Arabic or Christian, etc.

  • Region

    • The Region the consultant is In.
    • Not the Region the consultant serves which might be smaller or larger.
    • Smaller than Country, & Larger than City/Town.
    • For those Americans who do not think internationally:
      "Region" can mean "State" to you. It is no mistake that the word State is deliberately Not used in the head of column. This is an International Index, not an American Index, so "State" would be internationally misleading & inappropriate. For the rest of the world, sovereign independent nation States are Countries such as America, Britain, China, France. Whereas American states such as Pennsylvania & Washington that ceased to be independent hundreds of years back when they united to become America are Not nation states, but regions within one country.
    • More Examples:
      • Australia: Queensland or Northern Territory
      • Britain: Sussex or Perth-shire
      • France: Bordeaux

  • City

    • City does Not have extra comments like `prepared to travel' or `out of area too' or `+ Internet remote working' - all that is assumed if conditions & money suit. City is merely a statement of where consultant is based.
    • If you'r not in or near a city, list nearest big town or similar.
    • [+ Optional Postcode]. Consultants might (or not) want to omit Postcode=ZIP after the City. (There's ever more identity theft via Internet, Customers will want to email or phone Consultants for initial contact, not write a letter. Sure the codes are easily available elsewhere, but it just makes things a trifle more work for criminals.

  • Street

    • Street : Optional.
      Some Consultants may omit this, eg for security/ disturbance reason etc.

  • Phone Number:

    
    
    • Optional: Some Consultants may omit this, eg if they prefer initial contact via email or web form.
    • Phone Number is in full international format, starting with a +, with spaces not hyphens, so the HTML column does not grow too wide.
    • This number is the initial first enquiry office number for new customers to phone to negotiate new contracts for consultancy services.
    • It is not the the regular support hot line number offered to contracted customers etc.
    • It is a single phone number (there is no room in the table for more, look on the consultant's own page for more numbers).
    • It should not be an expensive or radio-interference / travelling, part time off, non answering problematic cell/mobile/handy phone number.
    • It will be a normal office number for full time Consultants , or maybe home office number for part time Consultants .
    • It should be equipped with an Answerphone or call forwarding to a mobile phone, or company office human telephone operator etc.
    • Fax, modem, isdn, & mobile numbers have been removed to make the table narrower, easier to view, & maintain, for those, click to the consultant's web.
    • Tip: Often if for example extension 123 does not answer, try extension 0 or 100.

  • Email Addresses

    Something click-able,
    • Either a mailto or an href to a mail form.
    • If a mailto make sure it is a valid email address with an MX record, something a link-checker will pass without error when scanning this page.
    • If an href to a web page on your site that could be some anti spam device, eg Web entry enquiry form
      • Please do Not make it a URL direct to some cgi-bin script you will change URL for periodically. Cos I don't want to waste time editing to that. Make it to some normal long term address on your site that is stable, & let the enquirer click again from your page to wherever your CGI is.
      • Please also embed your email address <-- in a comment --> mangled in some way to defeat spammers, but so at least I can read it & get back to all Consultants later easily if I need to, without going through your web form.
  Send New Pre-Formatted Entries To Julian Stacey
  • Save my raw html to a file.
  • Copy my file to a new file.
  • Edit new file.
  • Copy a live record (Not the title line, as format of that is too simple (no hrefs)).
  • Edit out all the old data & put yours in.
  • Ensure you comply with field descriptions & formats for phone number & address etc.
  • If you have local national characters, use the correct HTML escape sequence. (look in the source for examples of German umlauts & French accents etc).
  • Ensure in yours there are zero HTML syntax errors (I use /usr/ports/www/ tidy to clean errors. )
  • Run diff -c table.lmth.orig table.lmth (Yes, what you browse on, table.html, is not the source, the source is in table.lmth, (similar except for some top & tail automatic macros, sure if you generate diff from .html I can use that, but if I also forget to edit your patch from .html to .lmth, then patch will edit the wrong file, & next time I run make, your entry will be lost (by automatic accident, not deliberately).
  • Do Not just mouse cut & paste off of your formatted web browser screen, else I will dump it, & maybe tell you to format it properly in click-able HTML, (I'm happy to add you, but no time to waste)
  • Send in plain text format, not HTML, not Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable.
  • Periodically check your URLs in your entry are correct.
    If your URLs fail & I notice, I may delete your entry without notice if its not easy to contact you. (Suggestion: Add a fallback email address in an HTML delimeter if you want, have a look at mine as an example).
    Consider where your URL pointer goes if your domain owner stops paying your registrar for your domain).

• Secondary Bases

  If consultant has further secondary bases established, they may be listed on same table record, in smaller font.

• Deliberately Not Included

  Hourly rates, skills available etc, deliberately Not included, It would become stale, as I will not work unpaid to frequently edit such changing info, that moves with time, market conditions, personnel available & engaged on other projects & new technology arriving.
  Click Consultant's individual Web page for more info.

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Cross References to other Indexes

• freebsd.org
  Was Indexed alphabetically by consultant, (IE Julian Stacey was indexed under 'J') Free form text, not tabular fields. Has since been split into regions.
• Free Software Foundation (GNU as in GNU/Linux)