H Alex,
What are you planning to create? What is McRuby and how hard is it to learn? Glad to hear that you are still around. You should come to the SDJUG meetings free pizza and heiken on tap. Take care, Nestor On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Alex Stoneham <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi there > > I am desiring a macruby app...badly... I have a burning desire to build a > few of them, *three specific ones*. > One is really cool, actually two are really cool, and the third is really > small (so it boosts its cool factor to being viably cool) > > The ones that I have in mind are finite projects, that I know are > achievable. I want to do them as my own IP, until I get them published. > > However I am already saturated with a full time position and some 'other > stuff' for my time off. > > I want to have 'contract for hire' agreements , I.e. if i make my cool > apps (three of them) I don't want the contractor I paid making his own > clones, or having a hand in getting clones made (no fair). > > I am not the richest guy in the world so I cant pay the rates like > [email protected]'s $750/day, he posted back in feb for example > (I am not saying your not worth it Rohan, I am just saying I cant afford > it). > > I would want to play a hand in the softwares design and architecture, but > I just don't have the time (man i sigh at the thought of doing the > undertaking alone) due to previous occupations,,,, if i wasn’t previously > occupied, I may just try it alone, but I have a sh$% load on my plate in > life. > > This isn't a job. This is a project/gig. Something for the weekend warrior > who wants to stay indoors this summer; > > Most of you will glaze over this and delete the mail, that’s fine, but if > someone is out there who wants to do a mac ruby app as a contract for hire, > then send me what you could do 'at will and being satisfied'. Perhaps we > can get the projects off the ground. > > I have mockup screen shots and workflows, some db designs. I just don't > have the macruby experience. If you don't have macruby experience but want > to learn it, perhaps we can work together. [At the moment I am in the > middle of implementing my own rails store for my own product, not > necessarily the wises use of my own (development) time. ] I can assure u, > these apps I want to build will help their users, its one of those > 'contributing to mankind/solving a problem' type work and not 'affiliate > marketing/selling/eccommerce' type work. *i.e. clean apps vs dirty > ones... * > one helps people learn,I want to do this first. The other two help enable > people. They are pretty finite in size. > > Joe Fox of http://codenoise.com/ - if someone like you wanted to 'team up > 1/2 and 1/2' on these ideas I would be open to that. But for the 'Joe I > don't know' I really want to keep the IP under my company and pay you a > 1099 contract as work for hire. I want to work with someone locally, due to > the trust factor mainly. > > With best regards, > Alex Stoneham > > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
