As of Jul 5, I've decided to try my luck on the open market, and am going freelance. I formed Logrus, Inc awhile back, and given the market right now, I feel like I can do pretty well as an independent provider. I have a very notable profile, I think.
I'm not severing my relationship with iO1 entirely; I'm staying on board as a contractor and will help them out, but my time is no longer exclusively theirs. Starting Jul 5, I will be available for the following types of tasks:
- Architecture help
- Mentoring and training developers
- Customizations to Views, Panels, CTools and other modules I've worked closely with
I don't intend to do site building, but I can put in time as part of a team if it needs something special that would work with my skills. I expect to work primarily with enterprise clients, as they seem more suited to be able to use someone of my skillset, and I am happy to subcontract with various shops if it makes sense to bring on someone like me with a client.
Ultimately, I hope to use this to better fund Views/Panels/Page Manager development. There's a lot of things I want to be able to do on these systems that I can't right now, and I'll be looking for ways to ensure that I have both the personal time to invest, but also the resources to bring in experts to do things that I'm less good at, such as UX redesign for the Page Manager system to try and make it as awesome as the new Views 3 UI is.
I think this will be an interesting new chapter for me. I admit that I have quite a mix of emotions, both excitement and fear, but I think this has a lot of good potential both for me personally and for the Drupal community.
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Best of Luck!
Best of Luck!
Good luck with your new
Good luck with your new venture; I am sure that with your wealth of knowledge and work experience you will do tremendously. I'm looking forward to hearing more about your freelancing adventures.
All the best to you!
Congrats and good luck!
Congrats and good luck!
Congrats!!!
I just switched jobs as well its a real liberating feeling!!!
great move
The mixed emotions are there because all change happens at the edge of your comfort zone.
I believe because of this move you will change the Drupal landscape in an even more positive and great way than you already did.
Congratulations
Congratulations Earl and best of luck as a freelancer - it's good to have freedom of choice. I hope we get to work on a common project one day!
Wow, one of the most
Wow, one of the most important Drupal developers on the freelancing market??? I guess there must be hundreds of big companies soon fighting to hire you for some very delicious work or just to hunt you as a trophy!
Congratulations & good luck Earl, we all love you (and Views+Panels+Ctools of course)! :)
Good luck
Good luck, Earl. I think it would be great to be explicit about the type of planned or "cool experimental R&D" type of projects / areas of work that you would like to work on. It's a good way to let people know where their needs and your passion intersect.
Good luck!
Not that you'll need luck. or magic. Your hard work and brilliance creates your opportunities, and I believe your courage now will reward you many times over. You are a great inspiration!
Welcome to the fray!
Congrats Earl! I know - especially with a young family - that it's a difficult decision to make (and can be nerve-wracking). I hope you love the lifestyle and that the opportunities flow (as I'm sure they will).
Who knows, we might even end up working together ;-)
Awesome!
Congrats on the move! Very excited and happy for you!
hint hint, nudge nudge
just making sure you've seen this:
http://acquia.com/careers/principal-engineer-office-cto
Congratulations
You've done SOOOOO much for Drupal and everyone involved. I'm really excited to see you forging your own path. I think this will lead to GREAT things for yourself and everyone else in the community. Thank you for everything you have done and will continue to do.
Congratulations and...
I am excited to see Earl getting out of the site building hamster wheel. Also, once I read this I offered to step aside if he wanted his seat back at Sony once I read his blog post. He said nah. So please stop yelling at me, OK?
Good luck
Good luck! You've done more for us than most.
Congratulations
It's a great chance you having around and thanks for your significant contributions
Best of luck!
If I was to do freelance again I would do a few things differently.
1. Use basecamp or other project management system and not one I built
2. Use freshbooks or quickbooks for billing see number 1 above
3. Get help with all the billing, invoicing etc so I could have spent more time coding and other more rewarding tasks.
I am sure things will go great.
Best regards
Al
Knowing what you'd like to do
Would it be worth outlining the things you'd like to be funded to do with the modules?, so that anybody can look at working that in to an enterprise project to aid further development of your excellent modules!
No doubt you will busy busy from July onwards :)
Best of luck on your new
Best of luck on your new endeavors! I have no doubt you'll keep on doing amazing things =)
Good move
I don't think that you will be wanting for clientele.
I think that it is great that you intend to devote some of your energy to training Although we have some great resources, our community is always in deficit for quality training at the high end. I am sure that the usual suspects are already knocking at your door.
That's great to hear Earl!
That's great to hear Earl! Congratulations and I'm sure it's going to work out nicely for you. I hope to have the opportunity to work with you on some projects before long.
That would be awesome! And
That would be awesome! And thank you!
hi earl. Are there some
hi earl. Are there some experiences while freelancing , you want to write? We even work with freelancers and would like the "other side" hear it from:) best greets, Marco
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