What a great idea! I don't yet have the skills to join, but for now e4s will certainly have my moral support (maybe some casual proofreading, too ;-).
For those of us not directly involved in e4s, I think it would still be interesting to hear what's going on from time to time, so hopefully there will be some occassional updates posted on the web2py list. I like the idea of e4s eventually replacing the web2py.com Support page. I think something like that would really set web2py apart (as if it's not already distinctive enough). OK, as promised, here's some proofreading -- on the Guidelines page, "Tehcnologies" should be "Technologies" in "Use Industry Standard Tehcnologies". Godspeed. Anthony On Nov 11, 9:52 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: > > ------------------ > http://www.experts4solutions.com > ------------------ > > 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
