business community

Small business has mailing list with about 20,000 names on it. We would like to create a Web-based community forum for them to interact for deals, content, commerce. ## Deliverables Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. Complete copyrights to all work purchased. Buyer owns all source code, executables, any and all programming associated in and with this project. Programmer retains no rights on any of the project. We challenge any programmer to create a compelling website proposal that we will review the website must be a way for 20,000 people in tech, finance and media to interact for business, communications and commerce (for deals, jobs, sales)...maybe with IM functionality also Some features we'd like to see: request for proposals area where people can post contracts; job board; allow users to select business headlines from any URL they wish to be displayed in a headline area on the page; but, most of all, we'd like to see some creative suggestions on how this group can interact via a website ## Platform server side: windows NT, can be ASP client side: browsers IE 3.0 (and compatible) and above ## Deadline information Proposals from programmers must be received by 6/21/2002 5:40:20 PM. Actual project deadline will be set if any of the proposals are deemed worthwhile to pursue