[consulting] consulting Digest, Vol 62, Issue 5

[Victor Kane]

+1 Kelly

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Stacy Wray <stacywray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right on - well said Kelly!
>
> -Stacy Wray
>
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> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Gotham City Drupal <
> kelly at gothamcitydrupal.com> wrote:
>
>> I feel obliged to comment here, you most definitely ARE asking a LOT for
>> $1K. I have to ask - when people post "jobs" like this - how on earth do
>> people think developers can make a living doing 6 weeks of work for $1,000?
>> This project is not an upgrade. It's a complete rebuild and migration with
>> complete re-themeing involved. There is no discussion about this. Read the
>> upgrade recommendations docs on Drupal.org. Even 6->7 is most often a
>> rebuild.
>>
>> Your only hope is to find someone who does Drupal for fun in their spare
>> time and/or is financially independent with no other time obligations. And
>> those people dont exist, so I wouldn't be too optimistic on this front. Or
>> you can wait long enough for someone to donate their spare time and take 6-8
>> months to build it - a big fan or supporter. And none of these are a
>> guarantee of quality.
>>
>> I don't mean to flame, but I'm so tired of people asking for everything
>> for nothing. It's like people think our skills are worthless. For every
>> client who secretly thinks this is true (and hires a student, or takes the
>> job to India, or whatever), it takes them living through a complete disaster
>> to realize that cheap = suck. Period.
>>
>> Kelly Bell
>> 917.446.1555
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