Thanks for your feedback and/or support everybody! :-)
Your willingness to help sounds genuine. However, I would like to hear from some core dev team members as far as whether your proposal helps fill their need. And I'd like to be sure this remains a synergistic and cohesive team, rather than a sum of its parts. The other dev delegate candidates so far have already proven themselves as part of this team. If you get some of the current devs to endorse you, that would mean a lot to me.
I have contacted the core devs before registering my delegate and received positive feedback - otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to pay the reg fee. Of course I'd be happy too if they could show their support also in this thread. Edit - thanks Vikram!
I'm aware that for various reasons I won't become a member of the core team in the foreseeable future, but that is not my intent. My plan is to work on less critical tasks that the core team currently cannot take on due to lack of resources.
I dont understand you are charging your own rate and not based on delegate percentage? What if delegate pay halves you spend less time? How will stakeholders have visibility in terms of how manyhours you put in? It should be results driven rather than per hour... If you are saying youneed 2 delegates at 100% thats different but it will wouldnt be enough to cover you working fulltime so again I dont get it.
Btw since price is low devs have to understand this and charge less for example I have similar experience level as you but I am planning on running a delegate for my shopping carts which took over 2 months to develop and probably another 2 to finish off all the work and doesnt count setup which was a big chunk and also hosting fees etc of over $200 per month. I know i wont get the same compensation as the core devs that got 3m bts in bonus and more for their work but those that relocated hit the gold mine especially as price was high then.
Until it rises back up i would expect a core dev to work for 1 100% delegate for one project in parallel with other projects
I have looked at other delegate proposals before writing mine. What has often surprised me is that candidates describe *what* they are planning to do, but not *how long* it will take them. So effectively shareholders don't know how much these plans are going to cost them.
OTOH the type of work I have to offer has a market price. I'm even staying below that, because I like the project. Shareholders can decide if they want to pay market rates for developers or not. I will publish a list of what I've done and how much I'm charging for it. Shareholders can verify results and decide if the results are worth what I'm asking - if not they can fire me. That's how the freelance developer market works.
An important difference between my normal work and this proposal is that normally I don't have to pay 60k BTS up front just to apply for a job. I have done this here because I have confidence in my capabilities as a software developer. I trust the community to make the right decision here, and all I'm asking for is a little trust in return - if I don't live up to expectations you can always downvote me again.