# Let\\\\47s collect ideas about the freelancers site. 

General 

Names: 

  freelancers protal

  rubywork.org 

Motos: 

  made by freelancers, run by freelancers 

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Visions:

  The site should help us to become better freelancers :-) and help to lower our transaction costs*. 

                                                                                                  * The Nature of the Firm by Ronald Coase

Features and ideas 

# First let\\\'s collect all ideas floating around us, later we can filter and prioritize. 

- our profiles and stuff what we offer (code, design, code-review, project coordination etc)

- an upfront fee from the buyer (no comission!) and where you\\\'re actually encouraged to meet and talk to the buyer off-site
- easy contact info like skype and aim, blogs 

- blogs and articles related to various freelance proffessions
- project aggregation from several freelancer sites

- project posting (should have some minimum project budget to post, say 500 euro, idea is to promote long time relations versus ministuff) 

- simple projects profiling (what, when, who etc)

- customers profiling

- opensource project where we can all contribute, but having team of core developers like Bogdan, 

   who check out the patches and actually add them to the site... a little bit like Rails :)

- users should promote to use real name and identity (openid login for sure)

- site should promote/highlight local freelancers for local customers. Country base should be ok, if user is coming with Estonian ip then Estonian freelancers (Priit :-) should be promoted some way etc.

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