DISQUS

Stephen Weeks · 2 years ago

I've been really curious about the significance of "Utah" in "Utah Facebook Developer" when I've seen you post about this.
I've never really identified myself as a "Utah Perl Programmer" or a "Utah Sysadmin" as most of the people I work with are online and most of the work that I do is online.

Why is the geographic location of other developers significant to you?

uncle_jesse · 2 years ago

Stephen, geography is important because when people look for a Facebook developer, and they live in Utah, they look for Utah Facebook developers first. Do they have to? Probably not, but in the end it's at least a little cheaper for them to pay a local than someone remote that they can't see or interact with in person. If you're a Facebook developer and don't live in Utah, please feel free to note it - I'm just proud of living in Utah right now and would love to see more local developers embrace Facebook. I will always refer them first, if they have the qualifications, then any other Facebook developers I know of.

BTW, I'm also a "Utah Perl Programmer". :-) There's just a lot of us (relatively speaking) so I'm not as concerned about that community.