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      • Creating Substance: The Role of Content in Tool Development
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      • Making government accessible
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      • Why do we contract external workers?
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      • Contracting people for work
      • UpWork Contracting
    • Monitoring & Evaluation
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      • Resizing images
      • Creating an email newsletter
      • Posting a blog
      • Sharing a blog post
      • Marketing Q &A
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      • Tracking app and campaign web traffic sources
    • Human Resources
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      • Recruitment template: Project lead developer
      • DRAFT Recruitment template: Product owner
      • One-on-ones (1:1s)
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      • ODR1: Organisational Decision Records
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      • How to build pages in Webflow so that content can be added using Javascript
    • Setting up a new server
    • Hosting on dokku
    • CDN in front of S3
    • Setting up a new Domain
    • CKAN
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    • Our product design process
  • Codebridge
    • Codebridge - the space
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  1. How we work

Outsourcing & Contracting

Interviews: JD, Adi, Lailah

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Why do we contract external workers?

  1. South Africa's labor laws

  2. The inherent nature of OpenUp's Agile and Scrum methodology

For more, see .

Platforms we use to find contractors

  • Upwork

  • Fiverr

For more info, see .

Contracting people for work

  1. Types of contracting

  2. Task/sector specifics

  3. How to specify a task

  4. How to cost a contractor task

For more info, see .

  • Work brief [DOC]

  • Contracts [DOC]

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Freelancer Agreement