Geneva Web Collective

A suggestion

I anticipate a lot of work in Geneva for a good web site building organisation which can charge non profit rates. Much more than I personally can build. However I do not want to start, or even work for, a company. So I'm proposing that there be a collective of web specialists who work well together and prefer the freelance lifestyle.

Freelancers working together could benefit from sharing an accountant, pooling their client-handling and marketing, and they would be free to accept or refuse any job, and to work elsewhere. We would have a shared web site, and blogging platform (that was what caused the original idea, actually) The collective might charge a commission to cover the cost of things like proposal writing, but the actual overheads should be very low.

Matthew. Information Architect and project manager. I hope to be employed 3-4 days a week overseeing projects and writing about them and communicating about them. I would help get other members up to speed on Drupal, and do what needed to be done at other times.
Tim, as the most senior, would make a good figurehead, Tim can you sell web sites and interview? I wonder if you'd also be good at backstopping the admin and IT. I think that's what you did in the water collection NGO and every organisation needs one. I'm hoping to absolutely minimise the paperwork and looking for advice on how to do so. So I see you as the one running the version control system, ticket system, making the documents look pretty, handling the accountant and other Swiss relations.
Samuel, you're the workhorse, we need you to learn Drupal and do it all day and every day. This may involve working with clients' technical people, especially on things like data migration, but taking very few technical decisions. We would work together hammering out the details of the architecture before you implemented it. Together we would make a language and conventions to do this efficiently.
Leonardo, You seem to be the graphics man, But we need you to skill up on usability. It will be your job not only to make the sites look good, but to tell user stories and interact with users and learn from them. This overlaps somewhat with information architecture. We might work together on wireframes and other ways to communicate with the client.