Owner | Latino Match

am looking for a drupal developer to work on social networking project centered on geo-spatial and interest data. I broke-down the project in several phases, phases 1 being very basic. So if you agree with this approach and you are an expert with drupal, php, google map's api, the gmap module, the categories module (CCK) and how it can apply to profiles, please do read on. Lastly, it would help tremendously if you would share with me any implementation examples similar to the specs below.

So here's a preview of the high-level functionality I need developed/implemented for Phase 1:

1.

  Registration
      * add category fields (category table should be same as for content types)
      * users should be able to submit sub-categories for approval

2.

  Search, GMAP and location modules
      * display users based on zip code and category keywords on a google map (bubble format)
      * display list view

3.

  Interest network page
      * for each category/zip code, query profiles in map
      * Also query related content (ads, blogs, forums, news, photos, videos)
        good example of this is http://matchhotels.com/football/England/Arsenal-hotels-1697.html

4.

  Profile
      * display mini profiles as bubbles on google map to include user thumbnail, username, categories, and a link to the full profile

5.

  Facebook integration
      * Utilize facebook's getuser.info api
      * parse users as site's own base on specified data markers.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, I would love to get a sense of how much you would bid on a project like this. The project is much larger this. So if you are hired and you meet/exceed our expectations you will be guaranteed the next phases of the project.

If you are interested, please send samples of your work and be ready to sign an NDA.

thanks,

-pablo