Hal E. Fulton wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Robert Feldt" <feldt / ce.chalmers.se>
>To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
>Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:28 PM
>Subject: Re: [ANN] Happy Birthday, Ruby, and an announcement....
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>>Ps. David: Great news about the non-profit org. I guess things haven't
>>really taken form yet but do you also plan to sponsor Ruby projects? I
>>should be looking for a job soon so if you have a bag of money... :-)
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>Ha! Good idea, Robert, but stand in line. ;)
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>Seriously, I think it will be a long time before
>this sort of thing happens. (Prove me wrong, please!!)
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>But here's another idea I've thought of.
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>There have been times I wanted a certain (often small)
>piece of software but didn't want to write it myself.
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>I have wished that I could give someone "x" dollars to
>do it for me (for sufficiently small values of x).
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>Of course, the hourly rate might not come to what a
>programmer usually makes. But look at all the work
>that people do for free. :)
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>In any case, I wouldn't be opposed to a little 
>bulletin board where people could swap small amounts
>of money for small amounts of work.
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There is already a site which does this (it may be commercial). 
Unfortunately I can not remember its name, but the basic idea is the 
same, people post a description of code that needs to be written, and 
other people can offer to do the jobs.