On Nov 20, 2008, at 8:56 pm, Paul Robinson wrote:
> We don't too well as a bunch of coders at marketing ourselves much. In > fact, this has now become a major problem to the extent some firms are > moving away from Ruby entirely. Hmmm, Neil has been warning about this for a while. Was he sent from the future? > Talking to Dave tonight, I realised doing something off nwrug.org > might be worthwhile. I'm trying to work out how much we need though. I > realise workingwithrails.com exists, as does the GeekUp job board, > but neither seem to be great at beating the drum locally, and I'm > thinking building a platform for recruiters, firms, entrepreneurs, > etc. to find freelancers, dev firms and individuals looking for full- > time jobs doing Ruby. I'm only interested in training, consultancy, freelance and maybe (depending on the offer) contract work. Does that rule me out of this? > In the past we've only seen a limited response to this kind of > request. It's only worth doing if plenty of us want it. So, do people > want this? And if so, what's the wish list? My interest would be in getting in touch with more companies that need Ruby-related and/or agile-dev support. Maybe to help stop the bleeding you described above. Could that be part of the vision? Ashley -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://aviewfromafar.net/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
