I agree with Mikel here. The ability to pass off possible work to a group of individuals, that have a range of skills and abilities, that are trustworthy is great. There are lots of ex-clients, and friends of ex-clients that constantly pass me work, that I have to pass up.
It's something I think non-tech folk would get. A co-op, of sorts. Like where you get fish. Only a web site. Kinda. Ha. But, on the negative side. Like all committees it's could get thrown into the "tomorrow I'll do that" basket. Time is a difficult thing, when you're already juggling multiple jobs, a wife and kid (like me). Cheers --Dave On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Mikel Lindsaar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- David McPherson Ph: 0404 071 385 email: [email protected] -- 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.
