In article <014f01c2dc4b$bd287b80$0300a8c0 / austin.rr.com>,
Hal E. Fulton <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>----- 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.
>

sourcexchange went out of business a while back...

There was another site like too, something with 'brain' in the title as I 
recall.

>But I meant strictly in the Ruby community.

Well, maybe we could list jobs where Ruby is a requirement there as well.

Phil