[chbot] Recommendations for competent local web designing talent

[Dave Bracken]

Mark,
Do you think SA would be up for doing this via a student project using the
final year web development students at Ara?  If so, we can tick the
free/cheap labour box, students (usually) available every 6 months that can
continue development if necessary (as long as the task is large enough to
be classed as a project at the time), we will still be in business in 5
years time, open source code development, track record with lots of
companies in Christchurch ...
I don't supervise web projects myself but can put yourself and SA in
contact with those who do. I'm pretty sure examples of recent development
work could be made available.

Dave.


On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 07:56, Mark Atherton <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am currently helping Science Alive with various projects; one of them
> is to ease them into the whole world of web development (mainly from a
> specification, and contractual viewpoint).
>
> The next-generation web project needs to be developed using completely
> open-source tools (possibly wordpress); the development work needs to be
> completely transparent and portable so that any competent web designer
> can maintain the project as required.
>
> Part of the project will be creating documentation so that SA staff can
> understand how the web site has been constructed, along with all of the
> associated pieces of the web--puzzle, including all passwords etc. SA
> will also own all developed IP associated with the project so they can
> do with any of it as they wish. No part of the project will use any
> proprietary, or licensed components without explicit permission from SA.
>
> The developers need to be local to Christchurch, easy to work with, have
> a good track record in terms of integrity, no hidden surprises,
> on-price, and on-time delivery; you know - nice journeymen professionals
> with a sense of humour, who can also answer web and internet related
> questions, and won't charge the earth.
>
> I have has a couple of very odd exchanges with web-developers in the
> past - they have got quite excited (in a bad way) after explaining the
> need for open source and transparency issues. Strangely, neither of
> these people got the job...
>
> Also, (clearly) neither of these requirements can be met using the
> 'free' tools and environment provided by WIX and the like.
>
> Still have lots of details to work out, but first step is get SA
> introduced to some candidate companies who are likely to still be in
> business in five years time.
>
> Recommendation appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Mark
>
>
>
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