The Singularity Institute and the Center for Applied Rationality are looking to expand their web development team. As per usual we'd like to post this opportunity to the LW community first. All work will be on a contract basis (you quote us your hourly rate).
Perks:
- Make money while contributing to organizations you care about.
- Age and credentials are irrelevant; only product matters.
Requirements:
- WordPress and PHP skills (some features require PHP coding).
- Good design sense.
- Ability to start work on tasks/features quickly and deliver them in a timely manner (i.e., responsiveness).
If you're interested, apply here!
The "Paid Per Finished Product" model is particularly stigmatized in contract Web Design, particularly without face-to-face meeting and interaction, notably because it's very easy for the employer to contract several designers, and then turn around and only pay the one they prefer and take the best work while a bunch of other designers also worked hard and got turned out and were paid nothing. This isn't the only reason, but it's one of the main reasons why the stigma came to be, AFAICT.
This alone may be reason enough to use models generally seen as "more fair" for nonprofits that want to maximize their transparency and avoid image blows from petty legal disputes over forum banners.
Those concerns would mainly apply in situations of interactions between strangers with little knowledge of either's trustworthiness or when the broader values of the two parties are divergent or conflicting, which (by the nature of the user pool on this internet website) would not be applicable here.