Looking for someone to create/modify software for this forum [5500+ BTC]

[felipelalli]

 1y 5m wow.

3600 BTC yet? Really?

[Liam W]

Well, I make vBulletin mods but you would want the plugin system disabled so it would be redundant

[Red Emerald]

I'm still really interested in getting this done. Sadly my full time job does not give me any time for a project of this scale.

However, my coding partner has far more time to work on this than I do and he is once again interested.

I know I've said this before, but we will have a bid written up and posted shortly.

[da2ce7]

with the kitty so large, I think that it would be a good service to make it required that the code is released, with an open-source friendly licence. 

[Raoul Duke]

with the kitty so large, I think that it would be a good service to make it required that the code is released, with an open-source friendly licence. 

Why not "donate" a paid developer to one of the existing open-source projects?
I'm sure phpbb or smf would love a full-time dev working there, adding interesting features, or addons, to their platform.

[opentoe]

I'm confused. Original post was over 2 years ago and nothing was ever done? Looks like someone likes to hold onto bitcoin!

In two years you could have had a complete custom software written to exact specifications with anything and everything that was needed. Instead we get maybe a couple of add-ons, which are free to install and not even the latest version of the free forum software SMF.

Come on, lets get this place updated and make it look nice with the half million dollars the forum has. Whoo hoo.

[ripper234]

Can we just please move to discourse.org?

Yes, it's experimental software, but it's backed by Jeff Atwood and Co ... really good people.
They're still looking for 2 projects willing to try it out, and will give full support.

[ElectricMucus]

Ok the value of this amount can actually buy up a small startup now. You could also buy a contract with a major web development company.

It is unfathomable that nothing has happened yet.

[Ls777]

This topic is hilariously silly. For 3600 BTC I would gladly drop everything in my life for a year to learn how to do this, and have the site up and running, no problem. You shouldn't leave this sticky just hanging here if you guys aren't gonna do anything with it..

[whiskers75]

https://github.com/discourse/discourse - open source Ruby forum
Like the idea, theymos?

[Herodes]

Perhaps this thread should be closed ? Obviously there's a lot of competent programmers around, and for 3600 BTC, you could hire an Indian Town of programmers for a couple of years!

[cedivad]

you could hire an Indian Town of programmers for a couple of years!

We need to do it.
By popular decision, we are gonna write a 10 million lines of code platform.

So your god declared. Let's rent that town.

[jade087]

I'm shocked this thread is still open... are you still accepting bids? I'm a very experienced web developer (13+ years) particularly in creating online communities/blogs/forums. Do you want openly posted bids or would you prefer PMs?

[theymos]

I'm shocked this thread is still open... are you still accepting bids? I'm a very experienced web developer (13+ years) particularly in creating online communities/blogs/forums. Do you want openly posted bids or would you prefer PMs?

I am. PM me.

The BTC amount is even larger now.

[paraipan]

I'm shocked this thread is still open... are you still accepting bids? I'm a very experienced web developer (13+ years) particularly in creating online communities/blogs/forums. Do you want openly posted bids or would you prefer PMs?

I am. PM me.

The BTC amount is even larger now.

I still think Osiris is a good idea. Maybe reaching an agreement with it's creators to open source it would be more beneficial than creating a new, centralized, software. Don't know, just thinking out loud here.

[Raoul Duke]

I'm shocked this thread is still open... are you still accepting bids? I'm a very experienced web developer (13+ years) particularly in creating online communities/blogs/forums. Do you want openly posted bids or would you prefer PMs?

I am. PM me.

The BTC amount is even larger now.

I still think Osiris is a good idea. Maybe reaching an agreement with it's creators to open source it would be more beneficial than creating a new, centralized, software. Don't know, just thinking out loud here.

Nobody will use convoluted solutions.

[ElectricMucus]

5500+ BTC

I think theymos is trolling us. 

[theymos]

5500+ BTC

I think theymos is trolling us. 

Nope. You can verify the forum's balance:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155000.0

All of it is available for this project. However, I now want to be more closely involved in the software creation process than I did when I started this topic. I'm probably not going to pay people large amounts in advance (and certainly nowhere near 5500 BTC).

[ElectricMucus]

5500+ BTC

I think theymos is trolling us.  

Nope. You can verify the forum's balance:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155000.0

I didn't doubt the availability of funds but rather the effort to actually hire somebody to implement it.
How about it, reserve a ad slot to announce this thread, contact vbulletin to do it, etc...

[jade087]

I'm shocked this thread is still open... are you still accepting bids? I'm a very experienced web developer (13+ years) particularly in creating online communities/blogs/forums. Do you want openly posted bids or would you prefer PMs?

I am. PM me.

The BTC amount is even larger now.

Awesome. PM sent.