[socal-piggies] Still Looking

[Michael R]

What Brice and Danny said was spot on.

Howeverm, if the project is OPEN SOURCE (not that yours has to be) some 
of those difficulties are easier to overcome. In cases like that you are 
more likely to get interested in your project and it is easier to get 
going on it. Getting started on the code and even mentoring is easy if a 
small community exists people can be thought thru code and so on.

Of course the project usually is a meritocracy and belongs to the 
community, though dependending on your license (BSD, GPL) packaged 
product or support could be sold for it.

-- michael


On 27.07.2013 08:39, Daniel Greenfeld wrote:
> I think Brice has nailed it on the head.
>
> A few more things:
>
> 1. Teaching under the conditions you propose is hard. Why? No course
> material. Unless they qualify as an expert in your libraries and
> issues, the senior developer  has to do not-insignificant research in
> order to help you.
>
> 2. Putting in 10-20 hours to teach a single when you already work 
> full
> time (what most senior developers are doing) is hard. So then the
> developer wants to charge a lot because now they are working overtime
> and NOT DEVELOPING.
>
> 3. What's harder is negotiating for pay. Most prospective clients of
> such a deal are always shocked by the sticker price and negotiate
> hard, and most senior developers shy away from those kinds of
> negotiations after a while. Or worse, they take the job after being
> negotiated down and then flake out after a while (very common several
> weeks post-negotiation where the developer takes a financial cut).
>
>     For consulting most sane developers will charge (yearly salary / 
> 500)
>     Assuming the average salary for senior developers is 100k/year in
> LA, expect to pay at least 200/hour, or about 2K-4K a week.
>
> 4. I suggest you take a course. Taking a course on this topic puts 
> you
> back about $3500 for a week of super-intensive training. Most of 
> those
> instructors are in Chicago or San Francisco unless you can line up at
> least 7 other students, so you have to travel to get instruction.
>
> Danny
>
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Brice Leroy <bbrriiccee at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> No offense but since you asked for reason why you didn't receive 
>> replies...
>> The way you present your project, does not make it sound 
>> interesting. Being
>> an IT doesn't imply I'm proficient in other sciences, aka 
>> psychoacoustic
>> doesn't mean anything to me.
>>
>> Maybe explain a little more about the project, the way it started, 
>> the WHY
>> of that project, the goal, the implications and applications. Also 
>> who you
>> are, how you work, the benefit of working with you, the opportunity 
>> that
>> will result from that collaboration etc...
>>
>> Put some make up on that babe :-)
>>
>> On Jul 27, 2013 10:13 AM, "Dan Begel" <Dan at danbegelmd.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am having difficulty finding a Python tutor and wonder if anyone 
>>> might
>>> have a suggestion.
>>>
>>> I am looking for someone to help me build a gui in Python based on 
>>> a
>>> previous gui I created in Matlab. The project involves 
>>> psychoacoustics and
>>> is quite interesting, at least to me. I am looking for someone to 
>>> provide me
>>> with programming suggestions and advice, rather than doing the 
>>> project for
>>> me, and I will pay whatever the going hourly rate is for this help. 
>>> I will
>>> need 10-20 hours of help initially, and perhaps more as the project 
>>> becomes
>>> more sophisticated.
>>>
>>> If you know of anyone who might be interested, please put me in 
>>> touch with
>>> that person somehow. Also, if you have any thoughts about why this 
>>> request
>>> may not be of interest to persons who are skilled in Python 
>>> programming,
>>> please pass those thoughts along. For some reason it seems rather 
>>> difficult
>>> to find a Python tutor.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>>
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