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Hiring a development team to build a new FOSS app

1 points by edison_carter ↗ HN
I've just about secured funding to underwrite the development of a new application to be released under the GPLv3. I have no idea who to talk to about doing the actual development work, though. Is it hard to find software developers who will write F/OSS for hire? Are there established, respected groups who do this kind of work routinely? Any suggestions or guidance appreciated.

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nunobrito
Most developers are capable of writing FOSS code. What you need is to make sure that the code base remains compliant (licensing quality). I talk from experience of our own software as FOSS and the fact that I specifically focus on licensing compliance: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/team

We develop the tooling that the Linux Foundation makes available on their side for evaluating the licensing quality. Look here: http://spdx.org/tools/community/triplecheck-reporter

Somewhere around the web you should be able to find my contact details if you want to exchange some tips on things to do or avoid in FOSS development. Just drop me a message.