I'm talking to a company about converting a large application to Rails, and we're struggling with seeing what is possible.
One option we've discussed is setting up a HackDay. i.e. Inviting as many Rails programmers as we can find to a day where they work on converting / reimagining the companies software. At the end of the day, we can review the software and make some decisions about going the Rails Route / how to reimplement the code base. This is tricksy for a number of reasons, but number one is that nobody really wants to do a bunch of work for a commercial organisation with being paid handsomly. I'm not going to suggest that we grab as many people in for a hackday as we can, and pay them each a fixed industry level amount, because it would be a pretty expensive way of getting a lot of non-commercial code. I'm also not going to suggest some kind of low value bribe (beer, pizza and some kind of donation to a charity of your choice) I'm loathe to offer prizes too. As nice as it is to give one person a MBP, that means there's a whole bunch that don't get a MBP. So - 1) Does this sort of thing (re-imagining a old application) sound like fun? 2) What would I have to pay you / offer to get you to come? 3) Anyone been to anything like this before? Most importantly, what are your thoughts about this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
