I'm forwarding this to URUG. AJ ONeal
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Daniel C. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey gang, a friend of mine is looking for someone to help him out as > he learns Ruby on Rails + some essential system administration tasks. > His name is Peter Scheyer. Here's the information he gave me, copied > and pasted: > > ----- > > I want to have my own craigslist duplicate up and running, hosted, and > serving the web. I have a bunch of other features to add, but that's a > stupidly easy task (all been done before on > https://github.com/railslist/craigslist-clone). I just don't have time > right now to do it myself and haven't handled all the backend stuff > before, and want someone to walk me through it. I'll negotiate payment > with those interested, half up front and half upon completion or 4 > weeks' time, whichever comes first. > > I want it to be a legal website to operate as a business, so I'll want > an explanation of how to take code off github and license it properly. > > I want to be walked through the whole thing, from finding a host, to > registering the domain name, to putting code on the server, to editing > the code once it's running. If the other person wants to make a blog > post out of the process and send me a link, that's fine- i just want a > single coherent explanation of how to go from code to web site. > > I want to be able to take payments on the website, but if that is > annoying then we can make it into part 2 of the project. > > ---- > > If you're interested, email him off-list at [email protected]. It > looks like he's confusing the amount of, and distribution of, the task > ahead (he seems to think the installation will be more challenging and > time consuming than adding features, for example) but Peter is a good > guy, he's smart (Harvard graduate) and most importantly I wouldn't be > forwarding this if I thought it was going to be a Charlie Foxtrot. > > Cheers, > Dan > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
