As someone running a development studio, I can empathize the comments in this post. There is an opportunity for a matching service which could remove the friction involved in marrying developers and clients. When I'm chatting to people they mention that they want someone reputable who they can trust. That's really important as I would only consider an introduction if that person is going to benefit the network they're being introduced to.
I'd be interested to see how this takes shape outside of posting up gigs on the mailing list or self organizing at the meet ups. Jonathan On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Dave McPherson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Silverpond Pty Ltd email: [email protected] mobile: +61 411 727 819 phone: +61 3 9008 5929 fax: +61 3 8621 8996 address: Level 10 50 Market Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia -- 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.
