This is an interesting idea, and I am saying that while heading up http://reInteractive.net/ which you could think is encouraging competition.
>From my point of view, I get projects coming in the door all the time, which >are under our minimum budget cut off. Some want a brochure site, others want >a dev person who can do ongoing work for them. There are a lot of these >people out there. Just yesterday we turned down a job for a client that was >in the $20-30k range. This would be pretty good for a full time freelancer to >do. Would have taken them 2-3 months to get done depending on how good they >were and probably has some ongoing work for them. But for us as a development shop, it was not worth taking the job. Because we would not be able to deliver everything we do and sets us apart from a freelancer for that price. Having someone or some site I could refer these clients to and I has a fairly high confidence that they would get looked after would be good. It would also provide a way for me to tell clients I can't help them, but they can get help from this team. But I think trying to formalise the structure would be hard. If you have it as a non-profit business, then people have to be on staff to handle sales enquiries, match developers with clients, public liability insurance, professional indemnity insurance, etc, etc, etc, and that ends up looking like a development shop :) Anyway, that is my two cents worth. Mikel -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
