This is important. Please read!
These days I am getting a lot of private requests from people/
businesses who need consulting development jobs in web2py. This is
more than can I can handle. I need to keep track who is available and
who is capable so that I can refer those jobs to them.
Long ago we had discussions on the list about giving a more
professional facade to the group (at least some part of the group) so
that members could bid for larger contracts as if we were a business.
If you think about IBM it is not more than a collection of
consultants, exactly as are we. The difference is that in their case
the shareholders take a cut of the revenues of the consultants and
they have a legal status. We do not.
One proposed solution was to create a professional organization. We
discussed options.
I came up with this:
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http://www.experts4solutions.com
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I registered experts4solutions as an LLC to shield myself from
liability and give it a more professional legal status.
If you have contributed to web2py or have created a public web2py
application you are invited to join. By joining you are saying you are
willing to work on paid web2py projects and have your work reviewed
(by me and other members).
I will initially review and approve applications until we have a solid
core of members who can help draft better rules, improve the page,
offer more services.
The more members the more strict the admission rules will be since
they will be revised.
Let's be clear on this... there is no cost of joining and it does not
take any cut in your revenues when you are contacted directly by a
client. experts4solutions will provide additional optional services
also provided by me and other members. For example you may want to
take a contract but you or your client may wants to purchase code
review, and/or a long time support contract, and/or something you
cannot provide as an individual but we may be able to provide as a
group. You can be listed even if you have a company (actually it is
better if you have one and your company name will be listed too).
Eventually this may replace:
http://web2py.com/examples/default/support
The point of this is that I am impressed by the expertise I find on
this list. Some of the skills you have are hard to find. I want to
help you capitalize on it.
I love working with you guys. web2py is what today keeps us together
but web2py is a tool and one day (2100?) it will be replaced by a
better one. Yet there is a value in our group and perhaps it may
outlive web2py.
experts4solutions is not a discussion group and will not affect this
mailing list.
Massimo
