Would any one know of a site that academics can ask for volunteers to write software for research purposes?<p>I was thinking that there's a lot of science grads writing business software (like myself) who'd like to write technical software in their spare time.<p>Likewise there's a lot of academics/researchers who need some software written, and struggling to find someone to do it.<p>A web site could get the two together, anyone know of such a site? if not I was thinking of putting one together, but thought I'd ask here. Wasn't thinking of profit, just doing something technical that wasn't another orm/language etc.
You could monitor sites like seqanswers.com or biostars.org and offer coding-help when someone seems to be stuck.<p>I can't see the value in a site like you propose - a lot of data we analyse here (bioinformatics) is proprietary, just to touch it I had to sign two NDAs. In these circumstances it's impossible to invite strangers from the Internet to help work, the maximum we can do is hire local interns.