I'm a partner in a design and technology studio that creates large-scale interactive exhibits for museums. We are agile - by choice. For big 6-12 month projects, we try and secure exceptional python talent on contract. The python job board addresses this need.
Every few weeks though I run up against a bite-sized programming problem begging to be farmed out by our small company. The tasks themselves span the gamut from data wrangling (format conversions) to SWIG wrappers to Twisted to pyOpenGL. Often the task is 1 or 2 days of work. Not really big enough to warrant a job search, a contract, or even someone's full-time attention. The type of problem that is perfectly suited to a CS student or daytime programmer looking to make some extra money. Presently, when one of these jobs pops up, I just add 8-16 hours to my work week - much to the dismay of my 3-year old daughter who'd rather I pay someone and go to the park. The nice thing though about our bite-sized jobs is that the goals are perfectly clear because we are religious in our use of unit testing and test-driven development. Any suggestions then for locating skilled Python/C++ programmers for these small (micro) jobs? Cheers, Darran. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
