I back David on the costs. just to give an idea, my rate is lower than Davids and $10K is about 3 man weeks.
in projects I have been involved in from concept to finish is about $170-450K ========================= BJ Freeman http://bjfreeman.elance.com Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> David E Jones sent the following on 3/22/2010 2:31 PM: > This probably isn't going to sound very good, but $10k is about what I was > estimating for my own cost to do what would be needed for development to > begin (ie finish the design, review it with whoever will offer feedback, do a > round or two of updates to the design, then task out the implementation). > Once I scoped out about what just that would involve I gave up, it's a little > more than I can take on (I guess I'm not _that_ interested in it... ;) ). > > Of course, this could be done differently and people could bid on both the > design and development of various pages, basically proposing each page as > part of the bid (since there is only kind of a master list, and it's not > complete). That might result in a more fragmented overall application, but if > there is consistent enough review it doesn't have to be that way. > > BTW, about the enthusiasm... I think it was more for the results and the > general idea than for the work to design and build the thing. Maybe also > there was a misunderstanding that I would be doing everything and it would > magically appear over time, and yes that would be exciting! > > -David > > > On Mar 19, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Matt Warnock wrote: > >> I will match his $5000. >> >> On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 09:56 -0800, ScottA wrote: >>> David, >>> >>> If it makes a difference, I would be willing to pledge $5000 right now to >>> get this effort started. Are there any others out there that would pledge >>> either in money or time to push this along? Perhaps there are others who >>> have already implemented something like this who could contribute the code >>> back to the community? If so, please post on this thread. >>> >>> Like I said earlier, there was so much enthusiasm when David first suggested >>> this. What happened? > >
