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- From: gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello)
- Subject: Call For Telecommuting Next Consultants
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.210248.18062@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:02:48 GMT
- Lines: 66
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- I have been following the NextStep programmer shortage thread with great
- interest. I just posted an answer lamenting the lack of Next telecommuting
- consultant positions. I have a feeling there may be lots of Next
- programmers like myself prepared to do part-time consulting over the
- network. So...
-
- If you fit into the following description, please send email to me on how
- you fit the description. I will compile a list of available telecommuting
- Next consultants and their capabilities and publish it (as a public
- service). Maybe there's power in numbers. Maybe I'm the only one. Maybe
- this is a crazy idea in this "on-site only" era. I'm curious.
-
- 1. You own a Next computer, or you work in a Next environment where your
- employer doesn't mind you using the machines for consulting purposes. I
- suppose this could include third party developers who do consulting on the
- side.
-
- 2. You have enough experience with the Next that you can write a NextStep
- application in a reasonable amount of time. This is a tricky point. I
- expect that this issue can best be handled as a productivity per $
- adjustment. If this idea gets going, I will try to generate some standard
- numbers for the next community. I expect that billing rates could range
- from $15/hr to $100/hr depending on your productivity rate.
-
- 3. You have other kinds of experience that could be useful on a part-time
- basis (e.g. quality assurance, documentation, system administration, etc).
-
- 4. You are attached to the net and can absorb network connect charges (if
- any) until billing reinbursement.
-
- 5. You are prepared to work at least 15-20 hours a week.
-
- 6. You can function legitimately as a consultant. This refers to income
- tax status, providing your own health care, covering miscellaneous
- reimbursable costs, doing billing, etc.
-
- 7. You can provide security at your site.
-
- 8. You are prepared to possibly make one plane or car trip to the
- employer's site as part of the contract.
-
- Can you think of others?
-
- I expect that the potential employers of these "telecommuting consultants"
- would include:
-
- 1. Third party developers who need some part-time help to get through a
- "crunch".
-
- 2. Large commercial Next sites developing custom Next apps. Here I assume
- the part-time projects would tend to be more long-term (less critical).
- Part-timers could fill in gaps in the project not covered by the on-site
- full-timers.
-
- 3. Individuals (like faculty) who don't want to fool with the programming
- but have an application need nonetheless. Again probably less time
- critical.
-
- Can you think of others? Let's compile a potential list for distribution
- purposes.
-
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- Greg Colello
- Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
- Stanford University
- gcolello@biosphere.stanford.edu (NeXT mail OK)
-