I am a somewhat green developer; some work experience, last year of school.
As most of you, I am constantly working on an assortment of personal projects. Since my mind often has a somewhat drifting characteristic; I am not always able to keep the projects in check.
After some time they all exhibit the moral fiber of Vikings, harlots and chain-letter-knitters.
This includes constant forking, round-abouting, eating of school assignments of rather mundane, and hence pretty yawn-inducing, specifications, and of course quite a bit of gathering of folder dust.
Well, on to my question....is there a place, forum... or something with the purpose of linking people with ideas to the people actually being able to bring said ideas to life?
Of course, I know of the professional ones, like rent-a-coder and such. And there seem to be a lot of open source projects available for participation.
What I'm looking for doesn't really fit into any of those categories....
the form would be somewhat like rent-a-coder, but this is ideas&inspiration, not bubble-sort-my-quarterly-for-a-buck.
The possibilities for developing bonds, spicy code, and plain old fun seem quite possible.
As I see it, the main benefit would be that we (that is the tech-flipside of the proverbial eCoin) get something worthwhile to do, rather than squeeze the last creative grain out of our code-heavy brains.
To give it some perspective...: My last project consists of an absurd jQuery-plugin that includes animated png-robots migrating from Google Earth to drag a html-element of your choosing onto the map, where it gets color, for so to be dragged back by this poorly animated robot....
Often, the line between the creative and the tech is blurred, to say the least. I wouldn't think that would be a problem. Think someone who has developed a nifty little windows application, then sees possibility for a broader use, perhaps some sort of networking functionality. This fellow sadly lacks the skill to implememet this. So he, she or it would then seek a developer with the know-how and they could complete this project together.
So, do any of you know of such a place, or can nudge in the right direction? And yes, I understand completely that I should be dedicating myself to doing school work, or applying for mundane developer positions, so please.... :-)
UPDATE
Sadly, I'm situated in Oslo, Norway, and the number of developers are somewhat limited...and I have had quite some ahem personality issues with the ones who are available ;-)
So I feel I must go deeper; search the multitude of the web...
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4Source forge used to have a 'developers wanted' section, but I gave up looking as nothing ever grabbed me.
You also might be able to find someone in the bar at a conference.
All the user groups are excellent for this, and they are lot cheaper than conferences, free in fact. Like JUGs(ie LA Java User Groups), or better yet, Perl mongers, or Ruby user group.
Ofcourse these will often pair techy with a techy, but its amazing to me what interesting people show up at these, especially when pizza is involved...
I have the exact same situation, I've made a Cask of Amontillado text adventure and many other "amazing" things, but I have trouble finding other interesting and dedicated (and available) people to collaborate with.
Keep working on your networking, online and offline. It's hard to find people that can click with your personality and passion, but when you do the good times never end.
User groups are good to get to physically meet people in your area. Another thing to try would be to email or connect with other coders who have similar interests online: through Stack Overflow, blogs, or Twitter.
Clusterify: work on fun, small (few hours) projects and meet other coders.