<div style="background-color:transparent"><div style="background-color:transparent"><div style="background-color:transparent"><div style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Times"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.28921970073133707" style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi all</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br><a href="http://drownedinsound.com/"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Drowned in Sound</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is one of the UKs largest independent music platforms. It’s an extremely active site with around 20k uniques daily. Between the editorial (mostly record reviews and interviews) and the messageboard, the site has around 420k unique users and racks up to up 2.5m pageviews a month. </span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I’ve been working directly with Sean Adams, who founded the site back in 2000, for the last couple of years maintaining and enhancing the existing site. We’ve started to build a new version of the site, based around new GUI designs. We needed to refresh the tech stack which has involved major Ruby & Rails upgrades, a port from MySQL to Postgres, and a move to Heroku hosting.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’ve completed some new features but require a resource to help us complete the outstanding work and get the site live this year. I’ll still have an active role but my schedule/commitments don’t allow enough time for me to complete the build alone.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tech wise, the new site is on Ruby 1.9.3 / Rails 3.2.2. We’re using Cucumber to document acceptance tests / RSpec for units on all new features.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The rate/terms would be negotiated directly with Sean, under my recommendation but I’d imagine around 10 days work at £300 per day would be a decent guide. I’d imagine the work would need to be completed by the end of October, remote working a given.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you’re interested please contact me asap.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:x-small"><span style="font-size:small"><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><font color="#666666"><b>Matt Spendlove - Cenatus CIC</b><br>458 Hackney Road, London E2 9EG<br>+44 (0)7976 609379<br></font><a href="http://cenatus.org" target="_blank"><font color="#666666">http://cenatus.org</font></a><font color="#666666"><br>
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