# \[JOB\] Freelance rails developer wanted

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-freelance-rails-developer-wanted/122901>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 12, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-freelance-rails-developer-wanted/122901 "2007-12-12T20:22:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![hadley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@hadley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hadley)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/job-freelance-rails-developer-wanted/122901/1 "2007-12-12T20:22:33Z")

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We’re looking for a freelance rails developer to help us out with the  
development of [mathpeople.statbib.org](http://mathpeople.statbib.org), a name disambiguation and  
connection service for mathematics and statistics (and eventually other  
fields, to be released under an open source license). The basic idea is  
to connect disparate identifiers which refer to the same person, so that  
websites can easily cross-reference one another. The current web site  
is a proof of concept and we’re looking for help making it rock solid  
and speedy, making it as easy as possible for data providers to add and  
update their records, and enabling site users to suggest (moderated)  
corrections.

In particular, we’re looking for someone with:

- experience developing web services/apis
- experience with solr
- knowledge of screen scraping and data cleaning
- great all round rails knowledge and skills

And obviously an interest in mathematics or statistics would be an  
advantage. One feature that we’d like you to develop is a way for users  
to easily collect photos of mathematicians from google images. For  
example, how can we connect [http://mathpeople.statbib.org/people/275671](http://mathpeople.statbib.org/people/275671)  
to the appropriate photos from  
[http://images.google.com/images?&q=reverend+thomas+bayes](http://images.google.com/images?&q=reverend+thomas+bayes)?

Initially, we’d be looking for 10-20 hours of your time, but if we work  
well together, the contract could continue for much longer and you would  
have the opportunity to take a leadership role in this and other  
projects.

If you’re interested please email me, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid, with:

- a couple of paragraphs describing your relevant experience
- a link to your portofolio
- a link to any public facing apis that you have developed, or a  
description/documentation of non-public ones
- your going rate and availability

Thanks,

Hadley