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