Comments on: Sourceforge: About fulfilling Developers’ and Organizations’ needs http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/02/sourceforge-about-fulfilling-developers-and-organizations-needs/ “equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism” Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Roberto Galoppini http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/02/sourceforge-about-fulfilling-developers-and-organizations-needs/comment-page-1/#comment-561230 Roberto Galoppini Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:56:00 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/02/sourceforge-about-fulfilling-developers-and-organizations-needs/#comment-561230 Hi Tobi, thank you very much to join the conversation! Software integration seems important in your job. Is Sourceforge of any help to you to find other developers writing <a href="http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=RRDtool&type_of_search=soft&pmode=0&limit=100" rel="nofollow">code complementing yours</a>? Changing topic, what do you think about others using even <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/rrdtool/" rel="nofollow">using your code name</a>? Should Sourceforge address these problems in your opinion? Hi Tobi,

thank you very much to join the conversation!

Software integration seems important in your job. Is Sourceforge of any help to you to find other developers writing code complementing yours?

Changing topic, what do you think about others using even using your code name? Should Sourceforge address these problems in your opinion?

]]> By: Tobi Oetiker http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/02/sourceforge-about-fulfilling-developers-and-organizations-needs/comment-page-1/#comment-560240 Tobi Oetiker Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:31:33 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/09/02/sourceforge-about-fulfilling-developers-and-organizations-needs/#comment-560240 When it comes to working for money, I do not realy need source forge or any other mediator, since <a href="http://oetiker.ch" rel="nofollow">our company</a> has its own accounting division and billing capabilities. Our services are advertised on the web and interested parties do actually find us :-). I think the key "developer audience" in the "work for hire" sense could be students working on open source projects for fun, but would be well prepared to work for a paying customer implementing enhancements they need. These people do not have their own accounting and PR departments, so they might be very well served by mediation services provided through SF for example. Also if SF could come up with some way for potential customers to have a certain degree of certainty that their chosen developer will be able to deliver then this might be a very promising mix. my 2c tobi When it comes to working for money, I do not realy need source forge or any other mediator, since our company has its own accounting division and billing capabilities. Our services are advertised on the web and interested parties do actually find us :-).

I think the key “developer audience” in the “work for hire” sense could be students working on open source projects for fun, but would be well prepared to work for a paying customer implementing enhancements they need. These people do not have their own accounting and PR departments, so they might be very well served by mediation services provided through SF for example. Also if SF could come up with some way for potential customers to have a certain degree of certainty that their chosen developer will be able to deliver then this might be a very promising mix.

my 2c
tobi

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