Tech Freelancers/Startup-ers

Just wondering who here is a technology freelancer or working at a startup? Perhaps we could make this the goto thread for project based collaboration etc.

If you're a developer, web designer, copywriter, delivery manager or anything else in teh[sic] technology industry, looking for a project or need someone to help let your voice be heard:

personally I've been working for myself under the guise of the. (dot) consulting http://thedotconsulting.com for a year, pulling projects together (strategy, budget, tech spec etc) and building stuff on the front end (web/mobile).

I also have a pre-launch recipe sharing service called celeriac at http://celeri.ac

Interested in peeps with design skills and classical serverside skills (LAMP, CodeIgniter, Expression Engine etc.).

Well, almost everyone on here knows I'm working on a project called Microcosm, http://microcosm.app/ .

That's a new company trying to solve (in software) the problem of growing communities around niche interests.

In the meantime, to help survive... I'm allowing myself 4 days consulting work per month. Which is enough to keep myself and my girl in the hope of having a vacation this year.

This basically means people can hire me. But beware, I'm not cheap. For companies my rate starts at £800 per day, heading north for very specialist skills to large companies. But for charities and cycling non-profits I'm willing to work at almost half that rate. The biggest problem is my 4 day cap per month means that if you want me to do work, I'm best on planning, strategy, high-tech problems... rather than delivery of a long-running project.

Specialisms include:
Creating and configuration of hosted solutions such as web servers, DNS, layered web applications, etc.
Varnish HTTP accelerator optimisation.
Database optimisation.
Project planning, and review.
Web services and SOA consulting, specialism in REST.
Architectural review of solutions.
I also have knowledge of storage, SharePoint, networking, etc.

I can do most things... except design.

People I've worked for on the forum:

• skydancer (The Association of Bikeability Schemes)
  
• tricitybendix (Living Streets)
  
  

People I've worked with and would work with again on the forum:

• Big Daddy Wayne (Designer)
  
• photoben (Photographer)
  
  

Clients I've had non-forum:

• Credit Suisse
  
• Department of Justice
  
• Home Office
  
• Nationwide Building Society
  
• Yell
  
• Merrill Lynch
  
• Deutsche Bank
  
• ... about 30 other large companies
  
  

I can travel where needed, obviously client covers those costs.

Microcosm sounds much like Groupspaces - no?

Microcosm sounds much like Groupspaces - no?

At a simplistic level yes. Include also Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Kohort and Ning.

Difference is what happens when the community gets large. None of them really deal with that well, let alone the identity of a community, politics and how each community shapes and defines itself, and decentralised control of communities so that ever smaller niches can grow within a large community.

At the very basic level, forums are closer to what I'm building, functionality wise all of the above fit. But it's the way the combination is delivered that is different from anything I've found to date.

IT support. Run my own business for 25 years. Very Mac-Centric and like to focus on small businesses who can’t justify a full time position.

FTP server implementation, routers/VPNs, Broadband, DNS, Airport/Ethernet, FileMaker dbms (free spoke length calc & db here), data recovery, OSX/Applications upgrades & training, Pages/KeyNote/Numbers Ragtime, office documentation templates, bulk mailing (the legitimate kind), remote support.

I don’t really supply hardware these days as there’s no margin but happy to help with selecting & sourcing.

£300 pd.

Oh, and a spot of wheel building too!

2Phat4Rapha I've PM'd you regarding a role at a friend's company.

^ and this is why people should use this thread.

anyone out there who's a dab hand in objective C on iOS ?

If someone needs a fella for rigging or babysitting AV equipment, help with corporate events, someone to coil the cables or complain to the devs about the flash applications used to harvest data from exhibitions via touchscreen, let me know.
Overseas, fully paid expenses jobs much appreciated.