"Find your Haxe Developer" - Platform/Site

[Merelleya]

How to find Haxe developers to hire has been one of the main concerns I have heard at WWX. I have spoken to representatives of Gamsys, Game Duell and also Net Entertainment who advised that one of the main concerns of their managers, when thinking about switching to Haxe, is the question of where to hire developers. We also had a few job proposals recently, where I would have liked to be of more help.

I would like to address this with a relevant section on the Haxe.org site or a separateplatform where people can post their requests for Haxe developers a little more visibly. Haxe Devs, in turn, would be able to showcase their skills and we would know who is available at what location for what kind of work. This doesn't have to be only for full-time offers, but could also be used for temp contracts, remote help, contribution requests, etc.

I think the google group is not always the best place for these things, seeing as there is quite some activity on other topics as well.

I feel that this would help showcase Haxe skills and opportunities as well as give potential adopters a little confidence and a place to interact with the community to the specific purpose of hiring a Haxe Developer.

[Merelleya]

Please discuss

[ncannasse]

I would like to emphasis, maybe on haxe website, that getting started with Haxe when coming from Java/C#/JavaScript/ActionScript or other OO programming languages is actually quite easy: it usually takes days for someone to get started with Haxe. We could get some quotes comforting that from companies using Haxe.

Of course, that works well if you have already people with Haxe knowledge inside the company that can help new recruits when necessary. We want to maintain and put forward a list of contacts of people which are open for freelancing/consulting/training when a company when some help getting started or evaluating Haxe

[Merelleya]

We could include that, too. Like a list of "trainers" and/or consultants. We can emphasize training more on the website, but that would not address situations where people are actually actively looking to hire someone. I think it would be really helpful and also within the scope of what we want to do (there actually even is a "jobs" menu point on the site) to promote Haxe and communicate the message that we coordinate.

[waneck]

A try haxe fork which adds some tutorials, and some sort of checking to know if the exercise was done correctly might be a good way to start. Making it open to contribution, and having some sort of curation shouldn't consume too much time, I think.

I'm thinking about working on this, as I've been spending some time to teach programming (and specially Haxe programming) to local communities here in Brazil

[ncannasse]

@waneck while it's an interesting idea I don't think that's related to this particular point

[Merelleya]

@waneck please feel free to open a separate issue for your topic xD

[waneck]

You're right. Sorry about that :)

[larsiusprime]

I'd be very interested in this as an occasional employer myself. Often I need to hire a haxe contractor and have no idea where to look except to spam all my social media haxe channels, would be nice to have a central place. Could also be useful for posting bounties.

[ruby0x1]

To me it seems that the reasoning is that there are places to hire ____ developers on demand - like some singular location where all C++/C#/Java developers are just hanging around waiting for a job.

If that is the case - maybe these resources could be shared for other languages, so perspective can be gathered.

[Merelleya]

The main ideas:

• Helps companies find programmers
• Helps Haxe programmers find jobs
• Help projects find volunteers
• Help volunteers find work experience
• Could also work for Bounties

It is more of a coordinative effort and to have one single place where to showcase these things instead of having it spaced out over several mailing lists and the like. I am ok for developers to also showcase their other skills but the main focus should be on bringing those in need of Haxe code in contact with those who can write it.

[Merelleya]

@delahee via #25

• For the "find your developper", maybe we could architecture two aspects:
• Post an a job offer
• Post an a job proposal

[Merelleya]

will revisit with @jasononeil

[Simn]

This is a nice idea but is not going to be implemented anytime soon, so we might as well close it now. Let's instead focus on existing architectures/platforms for this.

[nadako]

I was thinking about how we should implement that and looked for something alike in other communities and couldn't find one. Does anyone have any references?

[Simn]

Let's can this idea for now, I really don't think it's worth the effort.

[nadako]

reopen this plox, as we still want to do something wrt this

[markknol]

@nadako SURPRISE :tada: I'm already doing something secret with it. Lets talk.

[nadako]

Oh, that's cool! Because I felt guilty for not having time to get started with it. I'll be happy to contribute to this.

[Merelleya]

done