19th August 2013, 08:04 PM
There's an awful lot of stuff out there that needs doing but which there's no funding for - I've got several things I pick at when I have time, and Seedygirl has a 'fossil' ex-commercial project in her sights, but the full-time employed contingent who are prepared to tackle such stuff are never going to do more than scratch the surface. There's masses of px-type stuff that people could run up some serious quality experience doing with only moderate supervision/training even though there's no money involved, and pad their CVs (maybe even publish stuff - that always looks good, and if it's non-commercial it's still free in most journals). I can think of loads of useful projects I'll never have time for (I've just pointed a PhD research enquiry in the direction of one, she can have it since I'll never have time). Just needs some organising