[JOB] Contract Drupal Programmer

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Contract Drupal Programmer

Our client is a small Values Based Media Consulting firm located in Brooklyn, NY, but they will be acquiring space in the Lower East Side (NYC) very soon.

The location of the programmer is not important; however, local candidates are preferred although all candidates with significant Drupal experience will be considered.

They are looking for a great CivicSpace / Drupal Programmer to design sites for progressive clients and organizations. Graphic design and traditional web skills are a major plus. Ideally, they are looking to create some really great Drupal / CivicSpace sites that don't look like your typical drab sites. They have several clients signed up and ready to move forward.

Here are some examples of the level of work they are looking to create: http://www.ironweedfilms.com or http://jerrybrown.org or http://www.nextbillion.net

Pay is in the 50/hour range depending on experience and could go full time if both parties are interested.

If you are interested in this contract opportunity and are a US Citizen & resident or green card holder, please submit your resume, hourly requirements, and a paragraph (or two) highlighting your skills/experience as it pertains to this job to mpearman@open-source-staffing.com

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did your client build any of those?

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Here are some examples of the level of work they are looking to create: http://www.ironweedfilms.com or http://jerrybrown.org or http://www.nextbillion.net

I have to ask if your client had anything to do with those sites. One was built by CivicActions, one by development seed, the other does not say.

My first thought is that that your client is looking for workers and selling its services to organizations based on what other groups can do with drupal.

If your client has nothing to do with the groups that built those sites, I would not touch this job for 500/hour

This sounds like a group with no connection to the F/OSS community trying to profit off other's tallent.

If my assumptions are wrong and your client is networked with the community and the groups that built the sites you mention, I offer my apology in advance.

Why are some OSS people so

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Why are some OSS people so alienated by capitalism? :)

The poster's client wants to pay some people to do some work, and they suggested some sites to indicate the caliber of work they were looking for.

I do understand that we in the OSS community like to align ourselves with those whom we know are giving to the community, and not just exploiting free software and available talent to churn out work solely in their own self interest. The fact that the poster is clearly a middle-man agency, with no apparent history in (or mention of) the community, is a fact some here might not take warmly to. Perhaps the poster can offer some more information about their client's efforts.

trellon did ironweed films

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trellon did the leg work for ironweed.

personally, i think it's interesting to see a head hunter in this field, though his rates are really really really really low... the current average is around $110 a hour (some are charging $150).

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What is wrong with this?

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I really have no problem with this. Even if they do everything that you say... thats how business generally works, and it isn't realy exploitive to anyone.

Clients frequently want to see many different examples of drupal. I routinely show many great drupal sites, prefaced by "I didn't have anything to do with this site, but it is a great example of what drupal can do". I also show good sites that I have done. Nothing wrong with that as long as they aren't claiming credit, which these people clearly aren't.

My first thought is that that your client is looking for workers and selling its services to organizations based on what other groups can do with drupal.

Yes. thats what lots of companies do. Sell a product then find someone to build it for them. Perfectly acceptable. In fact, if transparent enough, its a great service to find someone to do. For example, an advertising campaign wants several websites about a lin of products. They aren't website designers/devs. so they hire someone to help them.

If your client has nothing to do with the groups that built those sites, I would not touch this job for 500/hour

Why? Because they aspire to be like the people who made those sites?

This sounds like a group with no connection to the F/OSS community trying to profit off other's tallent.

Its routine to divide up a business into sales, design, development, billing & collections. These people want to sell sites using drupal. Whats more, they want to make sure they are selling good looking sites, which, whether intentional or not, will draw people to the drupal name. If these people can land a client and hire a developer/designer to execute the site, there's nothing wrong with that.

As for 'profit off of other's tal(l)ent', again yes, they do, in fact, I hope they do, thats what good middle-men and salespeople do. If successful the coder/designer profits, the middle-man/salesperson profits, the end-user profits, and drupal profits by getting the credit and reputation of being able to hold up in a professional setting.

Perhaps $50 is low, for us. When I first started out in drupal (as I know a lot of people on this list are doing) I would have loved to have a job at $50/hr. Of course, I wouldn' touch it now, but you see, that is my decision. If these people get reponses from newbie developers they will realize quickly they need to up their rates.

I'm really not trying to be belligerent here, I just really don't ike seeng people who are trying to use drupal for perfectly legitimate reasons getting flack. If you don't want the job, ignore it. But no need to go out of your way to call someone out. And possibly turn people away from the drupal community.

Had they said their clients built those sites; fine, go after them. They didn't say that and we all know that. One of the first things I ask every client to do is to make a list of sites they like. Not to copy them, but to understand what aesthetic my client likes. The client isn't trained in design or development and quite often doesn't have the vocabulary to speak in terms to describe what they want. But if they show me six four coloumn fixed-width pages I can pretty much gauge what they like. I presume thats all this was about.