Hi, What are peoples views on accepting projects on a site such as elance.com and then using open source software to complete the project. e.g. If an online shop is required, use an open source e-commerce package and modify it a bit to complete the project.
Most open source scripts are not legal to sell. Plus the people whom needs a project done usually ask for 100% rights to the content they pay for. If you good with graphic designs, try starting off creating company identities such as logos and letter heads.
Good comment RemyXo, i also would try to create company identities first. When you find out that it isn't something for you, you can also change your strategies. Hope you do well! Greetz, Ruperz
Haha ok, i just started here but i think i can learn a lot from all of y'all. What did you do 5 years ago and how have things developed since then?
You know I've been freelancing for almost six months now, i've modified several open sources scripts and also have created custom code, and that's basically what they are paying you for. Well, so far most of what they ask is for customizations in drupal/joomla/oscommerce/zencart/magento (and the list goes on). It's really really rare to see modifications of commercial solutions (such like vBulletin and IPB, and most of them are small/medium companies, meaning good chance that they have more work for you, just a tough cookie to get) If you are going to use an open source script, just introduce them to it, tell them you have examples, show them how categories will display, yadda yadda. Well, i'm still on my way to become more experience in freelancing so dunno
Well, I never really had a chance to learn a skill deep enough to make money off that alone. It's pretty sad because with 15 years of online experience, I never had/took the time to actually learn a skill; just did a little bit of everything.