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Andrew (bookseller era)

The core here is:

- I am accepting work
- If you are doing open source stuff, a hobby project, etc. I'm $25/hour.
- If you're a tech company, I'm $125/hour.
- If you're a small business, etc, I'm in between those two numbers, but closer to the hobby number.
- I can do lots of weird computer bullshit, and I can contract out to people I already work with and trust for the small number of things I can't do myself.
- Initial discussions are free, and I'll quote the whole project up front.
- I'd rather do weird BS for individuals than corporate stuff for corporations.

10 May at 16:47 | Open on retro.social
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Andrew Zonenberg

@ajroach42 How's your C++, technical writing, and general electronics knowledge?

Does ngscopeclient.org/ seem like something you'd be a good fit for? I have a long list of wishlist items I'm too busy to work on and will gladly throw some budget at someone willing to spend time on it.

10 May at 16:52 | Open on ioc.exchange
Andrew Zonenberg

@ajroach42 In particular, there are literally hundreds of pages of documentation that needs to be written for various processing blocks.

10 May at 16:53 | Open on ioc.exchange
Andrew (bookseller era)

@azonenberg My C++ is basically non-existent. I've dipped my toe, mostly for embedded work, but at the very beginning of my career.

I'm sure it's something I could get back up to speed on, but I'm probably not the right person for a heavy c++ project.

General electronics is fair to good, and I've worked as a technical writer in the past, but it's a few steps out of my core.

Happy to discuss the project further, or to shop it to some other folks who I think might be more well suited.

10 May at 16:56 | Open on retro.social
Andrew (bookseller era)

@azonenberg I'll follow up on the link later today.

10 May at 16:56 | Open on retro.social
Andrew Zonenberg

@ajroach42 What I'm looking for is:

* Someone willing to work at a discounted rate for open source work (I'd be paying out of pocket and can't afford to pay commercial rates, and the pool of people willing to do it for nothing is small)

* Someone who understands general electronics concepts

* Someone who can read C++ code that implements various protocol decodes and DSP operations well enough to write documentation about how to use it

If this isn't you, but you can hook me up with someone who is, I'm all ears.

@ajroach42 What I'm looking for is:

* Someone willing to work at a discounted rate for open source work (I'd be paying out of pocket and can't afford to pay commercial rates, and the pool of people willing to do it for nothing is small)

* Someone who understands general electronics concepts

* Someone who can read C++ code that implements various protocol decodes and DSP operations well enough to write documentation about how to use it

10 May at 16:57 | Open on ioc.exchange
Andrew Zonenberg

@ajroach42 Basically, for each of ~100 processing blocks (or as many as we have time/budget for):

* Get a screenshot of it in use in the waveform viewer

* Get a screenshot of it in use in the filter graph editor

* Document all of the inputs and outputs

* Write a paragraph or two about what it does at a high level

10 May at 16:59 | Open on ioc.exchange
Andrew Zonenberg

@ajroach42 Check out the "filters" section in here ngscopeclient.org/downloads/ng

The first dozen or so alphabetically are fairly well developed and are a good benchmark for what the rest should look like.

Note the remaining 100+ are a sentence or two, if that. This needs to change before a full release.

10 May at 17:00 | Open on ioc.exchange
Andrew (bookseller era)

@azonenberg I suspect I have the perfect candidate for you. I'll will forward him this thread, and follow up if he is interested.

10 May at 17:02 | Open on retro.social
Andrew (bookseller era)

I can do the kinds of freelance computer work you normally hire a freelancer for (website, ecommerce, simple apps for Android or Roku or whatever, hosting for peertube or mastodon, etc.) but that's not my specialty.

My specialty is weird, impractical bullshit like building a mobile livestreaming rig centered around a camera manufactured in 1969 (this is not a hypothetical communitymedia.video/w/t1k2ew6 ), or launching an independent television network (newellijay.tv), or building an alternate reality game as a progressive web app on a whim (it's a work in progress, and Sundog is doing all the hard work, but it's the *kind of thing* I do.)

I can do the kinds of freelance computer work you normally hire a freelancer for (website, ecommerce, simple apps for Android or Roku or whatever, hosting for peertube or mastodon, etc.) but that's not my specialty.

My specialty is weird, impractical bullshit like building a mobile livestreaming rig centered around a camera manufactured in 1969 (this is not a hypothetical communitymedia.video/w/t1k2ew6 ), or launching an independent television network (newellijay.tv

10 May at 17:25 | Open on retro.social
Andrew (bookseller era)

I'm also available for non-computer consulting. I didn't get in to that much, but I've designed and manufactured speakers, I've made toys in resin and from recycled milk jugs. I'm a coffee roaster. I can teach you how to bind books, or consult on ... whatever.

I can do training, technical writing, or even tech support on a wide number of topics.

If it's out of my wheelhouse, I'll do my best to point you towards someone who can help.

10 May at 17:30 | Open on retro.social
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