I'm always interested in ideas for hosting things on the web, but I don't understand what you are proposing... --- James. > -----Original Message----- > From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu > [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Singer > Sent: 2005 Nov 03, Thu 12:50 > To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. > Subject: Re: [AD] Consultant needed > > M. Adam Davis wrote: > > > I was contacted recently for a project which I have no time in my > > schedule to work on. > > > Just an idea: Sort of _FREELANCE_ job site based on PICList. > > I've got some ASP.NET / MS SQL server experience and I think, > I can develop code for the site on my own. That is I can > invest my time as developer in the project. > > I'd see four players here (I'm open to discussion): > - me as code developer; > - James as list owner; > - some person representing EE spirit of the list, gathering > and generating ideas, say Olin; > - the board of top list EE contributors (including RM); > > I can't work full time now, but I hope I could spend > considerable amount of time on the project. At the beginning > the host could be some free ASP.NET / SQL server host, > perhaps http://europe.webmatrixhosting.net > > Why not try it, nobody lose anything, but time on discussion. > Anyway that's much better than wasting time on lengthy > political discussions. > > The project should not be "open source". The code besides me > is meant to be available to James and Olin. Should the > project ever make a profit, the profit will be distributed > between mentioned 4 players. > > I'd suggest that the site should not be purely job dedicated > site, but also should be free EE educational and consulting > site (free to some reasonable extent). The free consulting > activity of each EE developer should be tracked down and > ranked up to let a potential customer better make his mind > about who's the person he is considering for his project. > > The knowledge base should also be maintained to ease the > consulting and developing process. Contributions to the > knowledge base should contain contributor's Id to increase > contributor's points when used. > > Your opinions, folks? > > Thanks for reading this post. > > Mike, > Ukraine. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change > your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist