Hey, This seems like a great initiative. I've just started a course in marketing and for our groupworks and thesis it would have been great if there was a platform where we could get in touch with some companies and find great topics to work on. Both parties would benefit. I see that you limit yourself to "studentenjobs". Maybe you could broaden this to study topics and cooperations? This way, the site would feel less like "yet another job site". Just my 5 cents. ;-) Good luck. Liese. <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Bram Biesbrouck <<a href="mailto:b@beligum.org">b@beligum.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <a href="http://captorials.com" target="_blank">captorials.com</a>) world: <a href="http://www.huureenstudent.be" target="_blank">http://www.huureenstudent.be</a> 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 -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:<a href="mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be</a> </blockquote></div>