Hi, everyone!
I have a ticket to RailsConf in Chicago, but I think I'm
going to have
to give it up. I'd be happy to sell my ticket to someone
else for the
original price ($400).
Of course, that'd be boring (but totally acceptable), so in
the interest
of getting to work with more people in the Ruby and Rails
community I
thought I'd also offer an option for a trade ... If you
don't have the
dough (or would prefer a warmer fuzzier alternative to
paying with cold
hard cash) I'd be willing to pay for your ticket (or even
for the ticket
plus airfare, hotel, and car) in exchange for your time. The
requirements for this are:
* You need to be a good programmer. By good programmer, I
don't mean the
walk-on-water-look-at-me-I-can-do-super-fancy-metaprogrammin
g-while-chewing-gum-backwards
type. After all, only about 20 percent of programming
requires mad
skillz (and I think we have that covered). It's the other
80 percent I
need help with, and that just requires someone with a good
foundation in
programming, common sense, and the ability to get stuff done
without
much direction. And programmers who have a great foundation
in other
languages (e.g. Smalltalk, Python) but who are relatively
new to Ruby
and Rails are welcome to try to convince me.
* You think you'd enjoy working with me and my company. To
get an idea
of the sort of person I am, you might want to check out my
blog:
http://jennyw.dange
rousideas.com. Also, some info about my company. It’s
called Colorful Expressions (to evoke the feeling some
people feel with
their computers; http://www.colorf
ulexpressions.com/). We’re a
consulting company (we don’t have a fancy money-generating
Web
application – yet, anyway) that works mostly with small
businesses and
non-profits. We have an interest in working for social
justice
organizations and often end up charging a lot less than your
typical
programming shop would as a result.
* You'd be willing to negotiate a favorable rate of
exchange and be
willing to work (paid) for time in addition to the trade if
necessary.
After all, I have no idea who you are and I'm going to be
making more or
less a snap judgment, and it's also hard to just stick a
person into a
project for a very few hours and expect something great to
happen.
It might be that no one will want to take me up on a trade
-- heck, even
I'm not sure whether it's a good idea or just silly -- and
I'll just end
up selling the ticket. But at least I tried to be creative
... 
If you are interested in either buying the ticket or working
out a
trade, please e-mail me at jennyw dangerousideas.com with
"RailsConf"
somewhere in the subject (this address gets huge amounts of
spam), or,
if you want to share your thoughts on this idea with the
world, post a
comment on my blog (but either e-mail me separately or
include your
contact info).
http://jennyw.dangerou
sideas.com/articles/2006/06/16/a-ticket-to-ride-the-rails-to
-chicago
Jen
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