Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-10 Thread David Saber
Subject: Re: OT Utopia people @David Saber I sent the website, a letter, about the UI that seems not to have a search by category, software and so on, and I received the response : Hi, Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us! The website that you see is different than what our clients see

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-09 Thread Olwen Nash
Hi folks, I recently had a very bad experience with an 'agent' (using the term loosely, as parasite / shark would be a much better description). He consistently withheld payment, despite having been paid by the client for the work I was doing. I am still currently owed over £2k for final

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-09 Thread Luca!!!!
@David Saber I sent the website, a letter, about the UI that seems not to have a search by category, software and so on, and I received the response : *Hi, Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us! The website that you see is different than what our clients see. They are able to search as

OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread olivier jeannel
Does anyone know this site service ? http://www.utopiapeople.com/ I think the concept is great. I won't use it since this is a paying service (for what I've red). Would be nice to have something similar for xsi lancers around the globe. Olivier

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread Javier Vega
it is a paying service? Im user of Utopia People, but I think that is a paying service just for the companies that search freelancers here. For the freelancers is free. Javier Vega jav...@zao3d.com http://www.zao3d.com http://blog.zao3d.com El 08/01/2013, a las 18:36, olivier jeannel

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread Andy Nicholas
It's free to register, but they take 15% commission from your daily rate. On 08 January 2013 at 17:40 Javier Vega javierelas...@gmail.com wrote: it is a paying service? Im user of Utopia People, but I think that is a paying service just for the companies that search freelancers here. For

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread Eric Lampi
From the website: Working with TV, Film, VFX or New media? It's free to join utopiapeople and we represent you on a non-exclusive basis. We take a 15% fee on agency bookings (not permanent). I am absolutely against this sort of thing. Paying someone else a hefty fee just to get introduced to a

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread olivier jeannel
That was my point, no need to pay. But the site interface is well done. I was thinking something like that for us could be cool. Maybe hosted @ si community or RRay. That's just an idea. But I pretty like what's happening at the moment with the softimage community. Small community, very

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread Eric Lampi
You are misunderstanding the terms. The freelancer pays the 15% fee. On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:53 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: That was my point, no need to pay. But the site interface is well done. I was thinking something like that for us could be cool. Maybe hosted @

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread Eric Lampi
Perhaps I am misunderstanding you? (If so, sorry) You're not advocating using this service but think a similar, free service should be set up? On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:53 PM, olivier jeannel olivier.jean...@noos.frwrote: That was my point, no need to pay. But the site interface is well done.

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread David Saber
Anyone gets it to work? I go to http://www.utopiapeople.com/jobs Then , on the line of a job, I click on MER INFO A window opens, I can't see any button or link here, I can't contact the company offering the job...

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread olivier jeannel
Exactly, we should have something similar _and free._ Le 08/01/2013 21:04, Eric Lampi a écrit : Perhaps I am misunderstanding you? (If so, sorry) You're not advocating using this service but think a similar, free service should be set up? On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:53 PM, olivier jeannel

Re: OT Utopia people

2013-01-08 Thread Len Krenzler
I would assume that sites like this need a critical mass of people using them to be effective. I'm not sure SI only would be enough and would it be much different from the Jobs section of the si-community? As a note, there hasn't been a new job posted there in about 3 months so not exactly