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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Brokering between developers and paying customers
From:       "Fred P." <fprog26 () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2005-06-22 21:17:58
Message-ID: BAY104-F11FB8AEA8ABCCF484FD291A7EB0 () phx ! gbl
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Hi everyone,

SourceForge or G-forge clones provides this infrastructure already with the 
"Tracker" section.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/alexandria/
http://gforge.org/frs/?group_id=1

see Feature Request, Support Request.

The simplest way would be to create a dummy kdejobs.sf.net project to handle 
this.
You will get the trackers and mailing list automatically in no time.

Another way, is to just create a mailing list or
as others did in the past just post your job offer here with a [JOBS] tag
and people will answer you in private if they are interested.

As far as QPL vs GPL, some clients do not care that their program are GPL,
even if they paid few thousands for it.

Worst case, the "secret business logic" can be put inside PostgreSQL stored 
procedures
for DB applications or external run-time execution via QProcess or similar 
(slow),
while keeping the main KDE application GPL.

Some companies do not care, if their application is made public
to save few thousands bucks on costly QPL license,
else simply add the required QPL license price tag on the job post or as a 
requirement.

Just few thoughts.

Sincerely yours,
Fred.

================

I'm thinking of a forum where commercial companies

Naturally, this cannot be a plain forum like the ones you see every day.
It should have two sides:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
|  Company? Post a job you need done! | Looking for a job?
|  Description:                       | Recent job postings:
|  Details (functional spec):         |  ---- bla bla bla
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Then when a company posts a job, they get a job number.  And when an
applicant takes a job, they get the job number and the company gets
notified.  Further discussion is enabled in the "job page", which is
(should be) very much like a bugs.kde.org bug page.

You could integrate user accounts with the ones in bugs.kde.org, and
have job postings be related to specific bug numbers in b.k.o.

The trick is to make job posting and job application easier and build a
workflow for coordination between job brokers and applicants.  Much like
the Google Summer of Code, but oriented to KDE-related work.

This idea could be extended to all kinds of free software platforms
there are, and it would be bright if KDE started the idea (since we
already have most of what it would take - an user database, the
technology, and many other things my current hungry-o-meter won't let me
remember clearly).

This idea cannot be championed by me only.  The idea needs support from
core devels, and the KDE foundation.


El lun, 20-06-2005 a las 11:37 +0200, Stephan Kulow escribió:
>Am Montag 20 Juni 2005 01:26 schrieb Boudewijn Gailliaert:
> > > This should, of course, be publicized for it to have the desired 
>effect.
> > > > Reminds me of a topic from March 12 2005 and a lot of discussion in 
>the days after that..
>Not necessarly the same. The march discussion was about users paying 
>portions, it sounds
>to me as if Manuel talks about companies wanting e.g. some KDE app and are 
>looking for
>a KDE developer. I don't think this necessarly a bad idea, I just don't see 
>the market at this
>point. But if Manuel wants to put effort into it to develop this idea, I 
>see no fundamental problem.
>Just setting up a mailing list won't be enough though.
>
>Greetings, Stephan
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