[LRUG] [WORK EXPERIENCE AD] Make public services better!

[Tim Cowlishaw]

Hmm, I'm a little cynical about this - The culture of unpaid work  
placements (which are pretty much almost mandatory for finding a paid  
job later) has become commonplace in plenty of other industries -  I  
don't think it's particularly valuable to anyone apart from the  
companies getting skilled workers for free, and i'd hate to see the  
same cultrure become prevalent in software development. Is there any  
particular reason (apart from budgetary considerations) that's  
stopping you from hiring a paid employee? If paying for a skilled  
programmer is impossible for whatever reason, have you thought about  
open-sourcing your code and building a community of contributing  
developers around it as an alternative? To my mind, that would provide  
better incentives for skilled people to contribute, and would lead to  
a broader skillset working on your code.

Cheers,

Tim

On 4 Mar 2009, at 23:40, Ian Drysdale wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm Ian, and I head up the online and social software work we do at  
> thinkpublic.  We're interested in how the web and social software  
> holds huge potential for improving public services.  We work with an  
> exciting range of organisations to explore this, coming up with new  
> ideas, tools and services.  We're looking for someone who likes  
> developing (preferably in HTML, CSS and Ruby on Rails) and is  
> interested in gaining work experience within our team.  If this  
> sounds like you, why not get in touch, please include a CV, examples  
> of recent web work and a few words about why you'd like to work with  
> us.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Ian
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