On Fri 23 Mar 2007, michael heimbinder wrote:
Now, I am working to upgrade my current website, www.habitatmap.org, and would like to use OpenGuides as the platform. I hired a programmer to help me out, Rupinder Deol, whom I believe may have contacted you in the recent past. Recently Rupinder has had to step down from the project due to family obligations, and that leaves me looking for another OpenGuides developer for Habitatmap. Can you guys recommend someone for the job.
Hi Michael,
OpenGuides is designed to work pretty much "out of the box", so the amount of work this would take does depend on what you want it to do that it doesn't do already! We already have Google maps integration, and I don't think it would be too tricky to make our Google maps page (see e.g. http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?action=index;format=map;index_type=... or http://tinyurl.com/3ccukn ) do what yours does; the main difference I can see is that you have text and an overhead view pop up when someone clicks on a marker, whereas ours just offers a link to the page with the text on.
So it depends on what you want - more details would be very helpful. Also: were you wanting someone with design skills too, or purely programming? How about hosting? Are you going to host and do the sysadmin stuff yourself (upgrading, any database stuff, etc)?
Kake (can you cc the mailing list in reply, please?)