RE: UKNM: chartered status for web professionals

[Lee Rickler]

>Going back to the sheriff part of 'Half of UK sites are "broken"', it is a

>tricky issue - on the one hand it would be nice to stop fly by night cowboy

>operations tarring the good name of the rest of the industry, on the other

>hand any sort of "guild" approach might become dangerously cartel like (and

>bureaucratic).


Why does it have to be cartelish ?


Surely an elected(?) body would represent the whole of it's memebers. 

Price fixing is another thing altogether. There is no way that I would go 

after the same clients as, for example, Online Magic and expect to be 

able to charge the same.


I'd assume, and hope, the guild/ association would take on all sorts of 

different sized companies and not just the big boys. Then there would be 

no point in organizing anything anyway.


> Obviously I'd also urge you all to

>take a look at http://www.assocaition.org/ and consider joining (please

>forgive the state of the website - built by volunteers, a new one coming

>soon courtesy of the kindness of Sapient/Studio Archetype)


I rest my case !!


>cheers

>

>Robin


     No ... thank you,


     Lee


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