Solutions that get used.
Local developers build something useful for community organisations across the Queenstown Lakes district, at no cost to the organisation.
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Something useful, built for your organisation
Scoped with you, built for the way you work now, and handed over with training. There is no cost to your organisation.
- No cost to your organisation
- One to two hours a week from one named contact
- Training, documentation and six weeks of free bug fixes
Paid work at community rates, with real users on the other end
Six paid seats across three teams, three senior and three junior, plus intern places. Roughly 12 hours a week for five weeks, after the ski season closes.
- Paid contract with Startup Queenstown Lakes, at community rates
- A senior developer mentoring every build
- An open source repository you can point at
A small, dispersed tech community, working together
The district has good developers, particularly early in their careers, who rarely get paid local work with real users. They take this on at community rates, well under commercial, because the work is worth doing. This programme is what puts them in a room with experienced local engineers and with the organisations that need the work done.
Everything is open source
Only three solutions get built, so each one is chosen partly on how many organisations it could serve. If five need the same thing, the aim is to build it once so all five can use it, rather than once for one of them.
Properly scoped and mentored, not a rushed side project
Three solutions are chosen through an open application process, each one scoped so it can serve more than one organisation. Each is matched with a small team of local developers, led by a senior developer. The programme is run by Startup Queenstown Lakes and funded by the Queenstown Lakes District Council Economic Diversification Fund.
- A panel of local tech and community people reads every application
- Discovery happens before the build, so scope is agreed with you
- Five weeks of weekly sprints, then handover with training and documentation
- Bugs fixed free for six weeks after handover, and the code is yours
- Applications open
- A local panel reads every application
- The three builds are announced
- Discovery, agreeing what gets built
- Five-week build, in weekly sprints
- Showcase Hui, the three solutions demonstrated
Startup Queenstown Lakes is the lead organisation, fund holder, and the entity developers contract to.