Survey: interest in subcontract development

You can also see
http://pluglist.macrosift.com/pipermail/plug-discuss/2002-July/028362.html
in the plug archives as there seems to be a lot of interest in forming some
sort of local alliance. I am interested in this as a means of expanding the
amount of local business my company does. (I am personally interested in
projects as well)

Also if you see my message earlier today/yesterday it runs in a similar
vein.

I intend to sample the interest and perhaps put together a meeting of linux
professionals to see what we can drum up.

Sincerely,
David Uhlman
CTO 50km Inc.
office(877-571-7679)
fax(509-752-3882)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay" <jay@kinetic.org>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: Survey: interest in subcontract development


>
>
> Hi Vaughn. You might want to subscribe to the GeekJobs list and post this
> same question there too. You can find it at:
>
> http://geekjobs.org
>
> ~Jay
>
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>
> > Hello all:
> > I've been an independent consultant for seven years now-- what that
actually
> > means is that I'm a contractor, but I don't go through the body shops
because
> > I have my own corporation. Anyway, I've always thought about looking
for
> > work on more of a project basis, but I don't have a list of people who'd
be
> > willing to help. So I was wondering, how many of you plug folks (a) are
> > professional developers, preferably C/C++ and/or SQL or other DBMS (b)
still
> > reside in the Phoenix area and (c) would be interest in doing
subcontract
> > work? (in Linux, of course) I have nothing lined up at the moment, but
I've
> > realized that in these lean economic times, I have to make my own work,
> > unless I'm willing to take whatever a recruiter feels like handing me.
I'm
> > not looking for any commitments, just a rough idea of what the interest
would
> > be within PLUG or elsewhere. Also, I'm not interested in making big
bucks
> > off other peoples' work, I'd just like to be able to tackle something a
> > little more challenging than doing work by the hour. And yes, I have
done
> > flat-rate projects, too (as an individual contracting for someone else),
so I
> > have a reasonable acquaintance with work statements, milestones, and the
like.
> > One thing I've noticed is how many small businesses have networked
computer
> > systems these days, and I was wondering how many of them would be
interested
> > in saving money by using Linux servers rather than NT. We could use
Samba,
> > of course, so they wouldn't have to wean their clerks off Windows.
(This is
> > about the full extent of my "market research" so far.)
> > I'd greatly appreciate any feedback or comments.
> >
> > Vaughn Treude
> > Nakota Software, Inc.
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> --
> ~Jay
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