[LRUG] Rails work

[Matt Patterson]

I've had a request from someone who shares the building I'm in for a few days of a Rails developer's time to tweak and load test their site (http://debatewise.com/) They're a non-profit, but do have some budget for this. (Don't know how much.)

David, their MD, sent me this:

> I run www.debatewise.com, we’re a non-profit and are working with the
> British Council and www.idebate.org on a project for the Copenhagen
> climate change conference in December. In essence, we're forming a
> panel of 1,000 young people from 100 different countries and we’ll ask
> them to debate what's happening in the conference. Some people will
> create the debates, others will vote on them. The idea is to try and
> get a measure of what young people around the world think of what’s
> happening in Copenhagen. We're also running a series of debates after
> the conference.  We'll divide panellists into their respective
> countries and will ask them to debate how decisions made at the
> conference will impact on them personally and where they live.
> 
> We're getting a lot of interest in this initiative and expect a
> significant increase in traffic on our site during the conference.
> Google have given us 1,000 Wave invites and we'll be running all the
> debates in Wave before publishing them to Debatewise.  We've also
> hooked up with The Independent and will be mirroring all Wave created
> debates and running companion debates to a debatewise.com subdomain.
> We expect quite a lot more interest from the media too.
> 
> Therefore, I am looking to hire a Rails developer who could load and
> stress test the site and fix any problems they find.  The timescale is
> towards the end of the month/early December.  Though the conference
> itself starts on the 7th so we absolutely, definitely, must be ready
> by then.
> 
> In addition, there may be a few tweaks we'd like to make during the
> same period and would also like someone on call from the 7th - 18th
> December in case the site goes down.
> 
> Please let me know if this is something you're interested in: dc at debatewise.com.
> 
> Thank you.

Matt

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