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Project for #owfa hackathon!

Goal: make rate negotiation easier for underrepresented groups in tech.

Minimal Viable Product

Who: a freelancer negotiating rates.

What: It should answer the question "how much is fair for me to charge for my work?"

Demographics:

• Age
• Experience (in years)
• Gender
• Location of employer
• Your location (prompt if IP differs from above)
• Job Type
  • Designer
  • Developer
  • Product
  • Marketing (?)

Stretch ideas

• Education
  • Degrees, Schools ?
• Disability
• Nationality
• Pregnancy / Kids or no kids
• Race / Ethnicity
• Religion

Features:

• Follow up with an email
• API

Resources, similar projects

• angel.co
• yourrate.co
• alistapart survey 2011
• eeoc.gov Relevant Resource for Types and Categorization of Discrimination

Developing

The app is just static HTML; all you need to do is serve the local directory. Note that we're developing on the gh-pages branch.

1. fork this repo
2. git clone
3. git checkout gh-pages
4. python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Stylesheets are written with Compass+SASS, compiled, and checked into this repo. If you want to make a change, see the sass/ directory. You can generate the CSS files with compass compile.

License

MIT