[Ubuntu-be] [OT] Huur een student

[Bram Biesbrouck]

Hi all,

I just started a new initiative to work together with students on various 
projects, some of them in the OS (planning a throughstart of captorials.com) 
world:
http://www.huureenstudent.be

The original idea behind it was that I don't really have the time anymore to 
continue my previous open-source initiatives, but I didn't want to abandon 
the projects at once. So I started this website to get in touch with some 
students who have the skills to continue working on them. Several customers 
of my company told me this was an interesting initiative, because it would 
enable them to get in touch with skilled students while bypassing the often 
expensive interim offices. This made me think: why not see things a little 
bigger and create a platform where everybody can get in touch with students 
that study someting related to the business you're in. It would enable me to 
find some students for my own cause, and in the meantime, help others out 
too. Maybe, if things would get big enough, I could start up some projects 
with funds coming from website-revenues.

So, it's all still a bit fresh now, but the initial reactions I get from my 
fellow business-partners indicate this is interesting enough to send out to 
some other people in the business. My apologies for the dutch language of the 
website; it's still in beta-phase until February, where I will decide if the 
project is viable or not, but I assume it will be, regarding the reactions on 
it. If all is well in February, I'll get it translated, and market it for the 
entire country.

So if you plan to start up an OS-project yourself, or you're just in need of 
some cheap but skilled temporary employees, have a look; some 100 students 
enlisted themself up until now, some of them seem to be very interesting 
computer-minded people.

Please send this through to your friends or colleagues if you think it might 
interest them too.

If you find this mail offensive due to the OT content, my apologies.

bram