On Dec 13, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Janko Mivšek wrote:
Hi Stef and others,
Consortium will certainly give customers some confidence. But only if information given by consortium will be trustful. This can be achieved by payments of members to have some status, well, giving some money always signals some seriousness :) Such company's and freelancer's status will then be a signal of confidence for customers.
Of course there is a problem of newcomers wanting to work as freelancers but at the start cannot afford paying to the consortium. At the other side we cannot just blindly trust everyone. One solution for that can be a kind of "network of trust" and in Aida community we actually have a such one, called Network of Aida professionals. You became a member of our network if you prove through the work in a community that you are capable and trustful of serious work on some paid project.
sounds really interesting. We should get the same.
Another idea can be to start with a "marketplace" (simply a new mailing list or existing LinkedIn infrastructure?) for matching supply and demand of Smalltalk talent. Not just Pharo, let it be broader, we are too few! There one can announce his ability for some work, on the other side one can search for people willing to work on some project.
we will see.
Best regards Janko
S, Stéphane Ducasse piše:
Janko, stephane and others
We need your inputs to build a structure to answer these questions. So what would help you to make your clients feel more confident? Again I repeat it (and I know that you know): we are really interested in making business grows around pharo.
so do you think that the consortium could have a list of companies offering services? freelancers? ⦠The consortium should help you.
Stef
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