Getafreelancer is what some of my students use to get their homework done. Does not resonate very well with me. :-(
Massimo On May 23, 10:15 pm, Álvaro Justen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 20:18, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have some problems: > > > 1) people ask me to contribute to more projects that I can handle. > > 2) I am good at kicking off a project (20% of the work) but I am not > > the best person to bring it to production (the other 80%) of the work. > > 3) I want to delegate some of these projects to users I trust. I need > > to better keep track of you, the users, your skills and interests. > > > You and I have some problems in common: > > 1) you are an individual or you own a small consulting company and > > you find hard to compete for large projects > > 2) you want to use web2py but you need to sell web2py before you can > > sell yoru services. > > 3) you need legal help (sample non-disclosure agreement, sample > > contracts, etc.) > > 4) for large projects you need to find people who can help you with > > development (you man need a designer, a coder, a system administrator, > > a GAE expert, etc). > > 5) you want somebody else to handle advertising for you > > > I want to help. I want to help you find development jobs, network, and > > compete for larger projects by providing some assistance. > > > I am about to create something like an association of web2py > > professionals with a portal that provides web sites for members, > > repository of legal forms, job posting, progress tracking, feedback > > forms, etc. Here is the basic idea: we do not advertise web2py, we > > advertise the association and its members. you find a client? you keep > > all the money. You want to offer your client long term support or code > > review? the association will sell that to the client directly > > directly. You want to be listed as a member? Follow a code of conduct > > (basically use approved tools and ask your clients to review your work > > publicly). You already have a consulting company or an employer? You > > can have the company listed as an associate under some conditions. > > > We can turn our group into a large international consulting > > organization overnight. There would be no contract between the > > association and you other than a code of conduct that you will have to > > follow to be listed and that I am about to wrote. You can continue to > > work as an individual or with your existing company. The association > > will just help when you need help. > > > The association may also partner with some member to provide venture > > capital in the form of code development (and perhaps money but not > > immediately) for specific projects submitted to the association, in > > exchange of shares. > > > I have already incorporated to do this. This will be independent and > > complementary form web2py itself and web2py would not be the only tool > > in the association approved toolkit. > > > For now the toolkit will include: web2py, ubuntu, postgresql, jquery, > > and google app engine. You as an individual or a company can provide > > services based on other tools but the association will endorse these > > tools because we can easily find people skilled in them and you, as a > > member, will be required to endorse these tools as good tools and > > demonstrate your skills in some of them (not all of them). > > > web2py is a tool. We will all outlive web2py. But we have created > > something important here. A community of skilled professional that > > share some experience. I want to see this grow with web2py and beyond > > web2py later. I want to see us compete with large consulting > > companies. I want to do it using a new business model in which there > > are no shareholders to take a cut of your work since they would not be > > providing any means of production to you (you already own a laptop and > > that is your office), yet I want to provide the other benefits that a > > large corporation can offer (a single image, consistency, > > reliability). > > > Not sure if there should be an admission criteria. I could use your > > feedback about this. > > > Comments? Thought? You do not have to commit to anything now but who > > is interested? > > I'm very interested on this. > What about integrate this system with third-party ones? Like > getafreelancer, oDesk etc. So we don't need to start 'from scratch' > when dealing with trusting a programmer or not. > Please, let me know what I can do to help. > > -- > Álvaro Justen - Turicas > http://blog.justen.eng.br/ > 21 9898-0141
