Anyone in WNY available for freelance or project work?
I'm wondering how many people on this group (if anyone) might be looking for freelance or project work?
My agency is looking right now for resources we can call on when our workload is heavy or when the issue is outside my areas of competence. I'm sure that as Drupal catches on in this region, there will be others in a similar position. So I was thinking that maybe local people who have bandwidth for or interest in freelance work could post here and describe what they think they could take on (or what they're interested in working on).
I think the things most people would want to know would include (but not necessarily be limited to):
Experience level, both w/ Drupal & PHP.
Version most or most-recently familiar with.
Sites you've worked on.
Modules you've contrib'd to.
Probably shouldn't talk in public about rates or negotiate in-thread. (Most places I've seen business promoted, people do that offline -- not sure what the protocols are here.)
I'll start
So, I'll start off as though I were looking for project work (which I'm not):
I've been working with Drupal as a hobbyist for five years, professionally for two. Professionally I've built sites using 4.7, 5.x and 6.x, and am working on my first e-commerce sites, now. Some sites I've been responsible for creating:
http://r-spec.org/ [pro bono]
http://thrivebook.com/ [d4]
http://turnernegineering.com/ [d5]
https://firstexchangebank.com/ [d5]
So, I'll also tell you what kind of thing we're looking for, and that's a couple of different things.
We'd like to find someone to whom we can offload a lot of the setup and configuration work for a customer site: Install modules, customize themes, populate menus, taxonomies and content, as well as design and implement solutions. We'd also love to hear about anyone who wanted to do any subset of those things.
I'd especially like to find someone with some Ubercart experience -- particularly coding mods or patches for Ubercart, and especially Ubercart 2.
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eric scoles | http://brandcool.com
Beginner Drupal hobbyist open to freelancing
I'm a beginner Drupal hobbyist that is open to freelance work if someone needs some basics taken care of.
My first experience with Drupal was maintaining a simple drupal site (created by someone else) for a political campaign in 2008, but the site was taken down after we lost.
I have since then been learning more, and practicing with Drupal, and I have now created my own site. It is still a very bare bones website, and is my work in progress:
www.DoodleMyCopy.com
I would love the chance to be given some projects that would give me the opportunity to learn even more and gain additional experience. I can already take care of a lot of setup and administrative responsibilities such as installing modules, putting up content, menus, etc. And I learn quickly so I'll be able to take on more and more as time goes on.
You can reach me at matt.robinson1@yahoo.com
YADD (Yet Another Drupal Developer)
I'm in the Batavia area currently doing full-time contract work via telecommute, but I'm open to opportunities.
My Drupal sites:
My resume is located at http://helusionary.com as well as links to my profiles on a number of social networks. I have significant experience doing recurring payments with Ubercart, though I'm not sure how relevant given the latest developments in that project (recurring has been removed from UC core). I'm also experienced in Linux administration and VPS optimization, in case you need help getting your site going.
I've contributed the Advanced Blog module (http://drupal.org/project/advanced_blog) and have filed a lot of bug reports elsewhere.
I wouls love to meet other developers in our area or help someone else get on the Drupal train.
eric v2
like the other eric (soles), i've been doing drupal from 4.x to the present, as well as civicrm from 1.x to the present. because my projects have primarily been campaign specific (a voter file is a particular kind of crm), these have all been multiple sites, and i've just started doing multi-site, for the reasons that the other eric mentions as tasks he'd like to find intelligent hands to do -- install modules, customize themes, populate menus, taxonomies and content, ... all the ugly mouse-n-click-keyboard that drupal's not yet found a way to eat from a config file, or i've not yet learned to write using install profiles.
i'm in ithaca, employed, but there are job mixes i'd like to contribute to ... ubercart's one, lots of languages is another, anything that looks like rue89, ...