Yeh, Enspiral do something like what you're describing. They basically pool jobs and virtual teams across their jobs. They have the benefits of being treated as one entity, yet there are a bunch of floating devs and designers working in their space and around the place (some in Aus, I believe) that get the project work done.
At Inspire9 we're a Ruby dev shop as well as a coworking space which doesn't seem that strange when you really think about it. The ruby culture is pretty progressive, especially when it comes to community, so it just fit the mold. If you're keen to come work with us flip an email to hello@inspire9,com. Like Mikel, we get a lot of work enquiries that aren't appropriate for us as a dev shop, but would suit a freelancer. We normally shoot them out onto our Yammer but that wouldn't really scale up to what you're talking about. So, as for formalising that sort of arrangement, I'm not sure what that looks like. But we'd be up for supporting that sort of thing at Inspire9 - we've got a lot of dev freelancers as residents. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/vY0YHfRwEAoJ. 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.
