On 10-18-2008 3:21 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
60 dls an hour is steep but perhaps you can shop around sites like
odesk.com or elance.com and hire a java developer for much less (10dls
an hour).
Wow, we must live in 2 different universes. First of all $60 is the
least I've ever paid for a *junior* programmer for my clients' projects
(i'm a biz analyst/PM/consultant for small unusual noncommercal
application projects, usually done with Servoy. As far as anyone who can
write solid, lean, dependable, documented code the minimum (as pointed
out by someone else here) is $100 per hour. Or €85 which today costs me
about $115. (was as high as $140 recently)
Given that $10 here in NYC will buy you exactly one loaf of bread and a
small chunk of butter, and that a one-room apartment costs around $1,700
per month minimum, $100 per hour for hard-to-find freelance work, and
after taxes are paid, is actually not a high income here.
Anyhow, all of that is besides the point. You assert that just about any
user could develop code. I dispute that. Let's agree to disagree.
With 200 dls you might be able to have a feature like the one the
original user asked. Maybe he can get a better rate once the developer
is aware it will be open source and under LGPL3 an end up paying much
less.
But the point is not really the money, is what are you going to do
about it. Raise money for your project with your local government
no such thing in the US
and
get a grant for science and technology to improve OOo is not such a
bad Idea either,
Just the thought of a grant for science/tech makes me want to move to
wherever you live.
then u can hire many java developers or your local
university and have a contest for $1000 dls bounty on FOSS.
I don't know what FOSS is so I guess that's yet another programmer thing.
I
I am ok with users not wanting to be developres, but that doesnt mean
that they can come up with alternatives to provide the resources
needed.
I don't mean to belittle your basic premise that there are creative ways
to contribute towards getting an extension done. Truth is, I personally
am not looking for any. My only wish to OOo Writer would be a really
good outliner view like Word. But I can wait for that or use the
far-superior-to-anything-else OmniOutliner when I want to do outlines.
Would still be happy to help with testing if some project can give me
an installer to double-click and an easy-to-use instruction and web form
for performing manual tests and entering results. The one time I tried I
was supposed to know things like what components with names like oevsl
mean (I made that up but whatever I encountered was equally unintelligible)
kazar
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