I've run my own one-man Drupal shop for 6 years, keep this in mind if you decide to go this route:
It'll take 3-5 years to build a decent portfolio and client list
You only get paid when your clients pay you (it can be feast or famine)
Find a Drupal/PHP programmer who can do the stuff you can't or don't want to do
Go to DrupalCon, Drupal meetups, Drupal camps, etc. MEET PEOPLE IN YOUR SITUATION.
But don't confuse this with networking; go to Chamber of Commerce events, tradeshows, BNI, etc. GET CLIENTS
Volunteer, freely give advice, offer discounts to non-profits, help out on Drupal forums, etc.
Most of this is business advice, not Drupal advice, but it all goes hand-in-hand. Make a name for yourself. Be good at what you do. Manage expectations with clients. Get a brochure and business cards. Write a blog; I wrote a book on Drupal which has been amazing for business.
This economy is a bitch. Good luck if you start your own thing.
So, perhaps the question should be, Crowdfunding for science - when and where can it be used successfully?
Label me a greedy insensitive capitalist bastard hell-bent on making a few bucks, but the only time I would donate money to research is when I know I will financially benefit from the research. So instead of "crowdsourcing for science", I would recommend "crowdsourcing for investors".
I recently decided to stop posting comments and articles to/. Some type of change happened after cmdrtaco left, others claim this happened years ago. You can see it with this comment:
It didn't, however, to promise to quit the smack talk.
There're more examples I could pull out, many on the current homepage, but I'm lazy. The point is I no longer feel this is news for nerds and stuff that matters, it's more like it's DRUDGE Report for geeks with a smattering of PR and marketing hype. Are you deliberately looking for geeky-type news and slanting it for a libertarian audience? Is/. destined to become another news outlet where articles and comments are posted by PR firms?
Have you noticed how the number of comments has decreased? How the number of articles per day has increased? Granted my account is a 7 digit, but still, something is different. I still visit daily, but I don't plan to post. I'm sure this will be modded as troll, which I'm definitely not trying to be. This is my dear john letter.
The goals of this plan are to capitalize on the innovation and new ideas that come with an Open Source community [...] and collect direct revenue from the product – not just revenue from ancillary products like support and training.
And even the title of the Slashdot post is spinning. Everyone knew Wikileaks published this file, it was insurance if anything should happen to Julian. That Wikileaks re-used a known password for this file is bad security practices [tm], and that Guardian published the password is beyond belief.
A particularly good candidate is a 10-meter object called 2008EA9 which will pass within a million kilometres or so of Earth in 2049.
It might be a theoretical research paper, but isn't that how most projects start?
But let's just assume that these Chinese science dudes know exactly what they're doing and that they'll be able at some point to nudge one of these huge asteroids into temporary Earth orbit... they estimate that a two-kilometer-wide metallic asteroid (about 1.2 miles across) could be worth something like 25 trillion dollars
I'm sure they'll get funding from somewhere to continue research if 25,000,000,000,000 is on the line...
If this is anything like Digital Divide Data, then I wish you the best of luck. We studied the HBR case study (sorry, paywall) in one of my MBA classes, the prof was friends with one of the founders, they are doing good things.
Right there with you. All this will lead to is higher CC transaction fees, which businesses will pay and will eventually be passed down to the consumer.
Florida must be making fun of us the same way that Californians were making fun of us earlier this week. I don't care, we got better cheesesteaks than you. Whiz, wit. Represent.
You can be an Evangelical Christian and believe in Evolution.
Heretic! To suggest the bible may be full of stories and poems and metaphors, heresy! A product of the culture 2000 years ago, and subject to interpretation, hogwash! Jesus wrote the bible with his own hand, neigh, with both hands writing at the same time, and he's still PISSED OFF over losing the whole "sun is the center of the universe" debate.
Slashdot Mirror
This is the most fucking true thing I have read on this thread.
Seriously, ain't no shit going on while she in the room.
Most of this is business advice, not Drupal advice, but it all goes hand-in-hand. Make a name for yourself. Be good at what you do. Manage expectations with clients. Get a brochure and business cards. Write a blog; I wrote a book on Drupal which has been amazing for business.
This economy is a bitch. Good luck if you start your own thing.
So, perhaps the question should be, Crowdfunding for science - when and where can it be used successfully?
Label me a greedy insensitive capitalist bastard hell-bent on making a few bucks, but the only time I would donate money to research is when I know I will financially benefit from the research. So instead of "crowdsourcing for science", I would recommend "crowdsourcing for investors".
It didn't, however, to promise to quit the smack talk.
There're more examples I could pull out, many on the current homepage, but I'm lazy. The point is I no longer feel this is news for nerds and stuff that matters, it's more like it's DRUDGE Report for geeks with a smattering of PR and marketing hype. Are you deliberately looking for geeky-type news and slanting it for a libertarian audience? Is /. destined to become another news outlet where articles and comments are posted by PR firms?
/. it's been fun.
Have you noticed how the number of comments has decreased? How the number of articles per day has increased? Granted my account is a 7 digit, but still, something is different. I still visit daily, but I don't plan to post. I'm sure this will be modded as troll, which I'm definitely not trying to be. This is my dear john letter.
Anyways
Seriously, 15k isn't that much.
I would love to use my Bionic, headset, GV and sipdroid over wifi, currently not possible b/c of wifi interference.
OSS is more than a product sold on the shelf.
The goals of this plan are to capitalize on the innovation and new ideas that come with an Open Source community [...] and collect direct revenue from the product – not just revenue from ancillary products like support and training.
There are no nuclear reactors at the southern French site
Loop where time becomes a.
And even the title of the Slashdot post is spinning. Everyone knew Wikileaks published this file, it was insurance if anything should happen to Julian. That Wikileaks re-used a known password for this file is bad security practices [tm], and that Guardian published the password is beyond belief.
Got 'em on the front page of /.
RefRef is the new LOIC, interesting write-up here, confirmed accurate by @AnonCMD.
Is this what took down Wikileaks?
Well if it was a guru hacker it was something like:
% cat
Hello World.
^D
A particularly good candidate is a 10-meter object called 2008EA9 which will pass within a million kilometres or so of Earth in 2049.
It might be a theoretical research paper, but isn't that how most projects start?
But let's just assume that these Chinese science dudes know exactly what they're doing and that they'll be able at some point to nudge one of these huge asteroids into temporary Earth orbit... they estimate that a two-kilometer-wide metallic asteroid (about 1.2 miles across) could be worth something like 25 trillion dollars
I'm sure they'll get funding from somewhere to continue research if 25,000,000,000,000 is on the line...
And I thought my Christian friends were good at slipping God into conversations.
If this is anything like Digital Divide Data, then I wish you the best of luck. We studied the HBR case study (sorry, paywall) in one of my MBA classes, the prof was friends with one of the founders, they are doing good things.
3 digit? 4 digit? 5? Just curious.
Here's the conversation on the Gibson forums if anyone is interested...
This technology will eventually hit 7-11 and thank god we can finally get our twinkies delivered at 2am.
Right there with you. All this will lead to is higher CC transaction fees, which businesses will pay and will eventually be passed down to the consumer.
You forget how everyone from DC to NYC reacted to the earthquake...
Florida must be making fun of us the same way that Californians were making fun of us earlier this week. I don't care, we got better cheesesteaks than you. Whiz, wit. Represent.
You can be an Evangelical Christian and believe in Evolution.
Heretic! To suggest the bible may be full of stories and poems and metaphors, heresy! A product of the culture 2000 years ago, and subject to interpretation, hogwash! Jesus wrote the bible with his own hand, neigh, with both hands writing at the same time, and he's still PISSED OFF over losing the whole "sun is the center of the universe" debate.