Autor: sajolida Data: A: Public mailing list about the Tails project Assumpte: Re: [Tails-project] Blog post: "Celebrating 10 years of Tails!"
numbat: > On 25/11/2019 19:35, u wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On 25.11.19 18:26, sajolida wrote:
>>> u:
>>
>
> [...]
>
>>>> - "full-time, most of them part-time or freelance." → I would change
>>>> that sentence for reasons known to author by deleting "or freelance".
>>>> Freelance has nothing to do with how much you work.
>>>
>>> I changed "freelance" into "consultant", which is what we already have
>>> on /jobs.
>>>
>>> For me "part-time" means something stable but part-time (eg. 1 day a
>>> week), while consultant/freelance means "1 shot" (eg. on 1 contract).
>>
>> I understand your reasoning better now. I guess a native speaker could
>> probably clear this up (not for this blog post because of time issues).
>
> Just a piece of IMHO:
>
> Consultant sounds fancier than freelance. Without being a work
> environment specialist, to me, consultants are more about giving advice
> and optimisation points whereas freelance workers do the actual work.
>
> In both cases, they come off as people working for the project, while
> having other occupations elsewhere.
