It might be a good idea to start a fund/get donations to develop some of these plugin ideas. I, for one, would be willing to fund some plugins but I need a repository of ideas that I can look through.
I'd like to see:
Considerations:
I'd like to see more growth here on Elgg but it's obvious that there aren't enough good devs out there. We support them already by giving them feedback, suggestions, even thanks but sometimes they just don't have the time to give back to the community because they have paid work to do. Might paying them help?
I see a number of existing plugins that are good but could be even better, however, I'm quite sure that the dev can't add features or integrate the plugin better because of lack of time.
Your thoughts?
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@Sawjer
I started my post with that line exactly - let's be practical!
If I understand you correct then you're talking about some kind of Elgg market place, similar to the plugins pages in Elgg community but with the added ability of payment/purchase mainly.
I've been thinking of this market place thing which allows developers to "sell" their plugins and it hit me - Lovegin John has developed the Social Commerce (pro) plugin which probably needs some modifications but it bests suits this idea.
Each developer may register to that elgg marketplace website, each developer can add his items (plugins) which may be purchased by anyone.
What do you think?
The marketplace is already out there: Elggdev, Webgalli, iZap, et al. Give it up guys! Really! Stop beating a dead horse.
Webgalli is a company which sells Elgg-based service. Same goes for iZap. Same for Elgg.in
With Elggdev, can I, as a developer, register and put a plugin for sale like vazco is doing with his user?
Why not just register your own domain, put up your own plugins and sell them? That's the point.
@Yakiv
If I thought it would have made any difference explaining it to you then I would but obviously it would be a total waste of my time.
@Yakiv
If I thought it would have made any difference explaining it to you then I would but obviously it would be a total waste of my time.
I just want to say something here..
Has anyone thought about whether devs would act ethically if there's a pot of money involved? Would they go pricing each other down? I hope not.
I say this because earlier today, an elgg webmaster and a great client contacted me to let me know that another person was trying to get some work from her by telling her that he writes code for me.
Oh well.
@Carlos
muhahahah that was mee!!
Just kidding. Excuse me but this forum needed a wake-up call with some humor with all the bad vibe going on around here! :-)
Now to the bottom line - I'm pushing this elgg market place forward and it will answer both needs that were discussed here which are:
Regards,
Liran.
Hi Carlos, who says the lowest bid is the most acceptable? If a group of sponsors are putting money into the pot, it is in their interests to get the best job done for the most reasonable price... not the cheapest at any cost. A devs credibility to do the job would be based on track record/CV/Rseume/feedback etc, and it would be up to the commissioners to decide with price, experience, skills, past history, quoted turnaround time, level of support etc in mind as to who gets the job. Surely this is normal... it works in other free markets.
@Liri and @Mark..
Thank you both for the info.
By the way, I wasn't objecting or criticising. Rather, I thought I'd mention today's incident and thought may be you would have some thoughts to address this kind of thing if it ever happens.. I say this because I really hope your platform develops and functions.
Cheers.
-Carlos
Note: I ended up doing that simple job for the client and it's all complete.. the reason for her sticking with me was that she did not like the conduct of that other person. It is good for devs to always remember that devaluing one another does not only upset competitors, but is also hated by clients.
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