[Python-ideas] Freelance Marketplace

[Nick Coghlan]

On 23 November 2016 at 05:32, andreas <bookoftrust at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With freelancing and freelancing marketplaces being so popular, why not have a
> platform especially for Python related tasks and only limit the community to a
> job board ?

Such services already exist for the wider open source community (e.g.
bountysource.com), and folks willing to advocate for and implement
Python changes are free to sign up for those platforms if they want to
do so.

Anyone that chooses to do so is also free to start a task funding
market specifically for the Python community and encourage both
developers and end users to sign up.

However, neither of those approaches requires the review and approval
of the CPython core development team as a whole, so they're off-topic
for this list (which is intended for discussion of language design
ideas, rather than sustaining engineering funding models).

The one aspect of contribution funding that's specific to core
development is the page at
https://docs.python.org/devguide/motivations.html, where core
developers that *are* open to freelancing opportunities can state
that, and provide links to other sites with the relevant details.

Cheers,
Nick.

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