Although Craig and Ryan work quickly, we have so much on our roadmap that our two-man dev team needs to turn into six ASAP. Then ten soon after that.

We have more than a dozen projects that we can section off for freelancers to work on and if we find the right people we'll drop them into the platform's core codebase. Ultimately we need full-time developers, but starting out on a part-time project basis and growing into a long term relationship has worked well for me in the past.

Here are more details on what we need:

• complete and total PHP and SQL mastery, we are a LAMP shop
  
• experience working on a distributed dev team using svn
• good at regular expressions and object oriented programming and optimization, not just one of them ;-)
• experience building content management systems
  
• Perl, Python, shell scripting, JavaScript and Flash/ActionScript/AIR expertise are all a plus
• someone who works well virtually -- over IM, email and the phone
  

Like I said in my call for web designers, we all work from home, but we get together every other month for codejams. These meetups generally consist of brainstorming, eating really well, cranking out code and having a good time. Our last codejam was in Philly in December. It was the first one for Crowd Fusion. Previous codejams for Blogsmith and Netscape were in Santa Monica, Orlando, Austin and Westchester, NY.

Even if you're not a match for our team or what we're working on, I know a bunch of people who need both freelance and full-time developers. You can get in touch with me via my contact form or leave me a comment with your details.