Re: FN-FORUM: This collective/cooperative/consortium thing

date posted 11th September 2007 17:52

Hey everyone,

I am a freelance designer/developer that is very excited about this
collective. I have worked in conjunction with other freelancers that
I studied with, for example I build a site for an architecture
studio, and my friend Takashi did the CMS, because I didn't have
enough time to do it. When I work like this it is usually a fixed fee
that I arrange with the person I am working with before starting.
This has worked extremely well for us and we regularly share clients.

The ideas discussed in this forum about forming a collective sound
amazing, I live in Camden Town so I would have no problem on going to
central London for meetings. My strongest skills right now are
working with the Drupal framework, CSS & XHTML, and working with
JavaScript libraries such as jQuery. I also am pretty good doing
graphic design and animations (3D, rotoscope, flash, motion graphics).

I will be paying close attention to this thread, it would be really
cool to meet with some of you guys!

All the best,
Nicolas


On 11 Sep 2007, at 15:51, Ian Piper wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I hope no-one minds me reviving this discussion. It's something
> that has been on my mind for a while, and maybe others on the list
> are in a similar position. I keep seeing opportunities for projects
> that are are enough out of my reach that I can't bid for them in my
> own right. When I say out of my reach, I mean in terms of scale
> rather than capability: the work really needs a team of people
> bigger than my little man-and-wife company. When projects like this
> have come up I have tended to try to pull together people from my
> network of contacts, but this has been hit-and-miss so far. I don't
> want to take on staff (one reason I work for myself in the first
> place) but I do want a better way to be able to combine forces with
> other professionals to pitch for business.
>
> I belong to Skillfair and keep seeing great-looking projects (two
> just today) and realising that they are beyond my reach as an
> individual. Very frustrating.
>
> I was interested when I saw the discussion thread recently about
> gr0w, the agency in Bristol that is run along cooperative/
> collective lines. That seemed to me like a model that could work
> well. I contacted them with the idea of talking to them about how
> they make it work but sadly no-one has come back to me.
>
> So my next port of call is here. Someone else must have been in a
> similar position, and maybe others are interested in exploring ways
> of putting together cooperatives, consortia or project teams. Has
> anyone experience that they would like to share (preferably on-
> list, but off-list by email if you prefer)?
>
>
> Ian.
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