Many people with technical skills, including many open source developrs, use online staffing marketplace
oDesk to
find work on projects. Project leaders, too, use the service as a way to find developers from all around the world with targeted types of skills. Today, oDesk is launching a program called
oDesk Groups, with 11 companies as initial launch partners, including Sun Microsystems, Zend, Yahoo! and Network Solutions. Among other things, Groups are targeted to allow these large tech companies to find developers and people with other types of skills who can work on their products and services. The initial partners have substantial budgets for development, and open source-focused partners Sun Microsystems and Zend may use oDesk Groups to make work available for many open source developers and experts.
