----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Sampaleanu" <colinml1 / exis.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] Happy Birthday, Ruby, and an announcement....


> >But here's another idea I've thought of.
> >
> >There have been times I wanted a certain (often small)
> >piece of software but didn't want to write it myself.
> >
> >I have wished that I could give someone "x" dollars to
> >do it for me (for sufficiently small values of x).
> >
> >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. :)
> >
> >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.
> >  
> >
> 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.

I remember that. Called sourcexhange or something? I forget.

But I meant strictly in the Ruby community.

Hal