[ideas101]

well thats the real challenge - i want to know the creative ways to pitch to the hackers? where and how to find them?

[xirium]

> where and how to find them?

Linux User Groups ( http://www.linux.org/groups/ , http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Operati... ), Perl User Groups ( http://www.pm.org/ ), 2600 Meetings ( http://www.2600.org/meetings/ ), DorkBot ( http://www.dorkbot.org/ ) and amateur radio meetings.

[thorax]

This site is not a bad one to pitch to hackers, being Hackers News. There are also a few other sites:

http://www.partnerup.com/

http://programmermeetdesigner.com/

In a way it depends on how discrete you wish to be about your idea.

Thinking outside of the box. One kinda interesting place to find up-and-coming young hackers is to check gaming coding sites. New gaming mods and game scripting communities are often a doorway into for-profit hacking. Quality may be hard to control for, but most of the potential candidates there don't yet know they have marketable skills.

For example:

* Eventscripts/Python scripters: http://forums.mattie.info/cs/forums/viewforum.php?f=90)

* C/Pawn developers: http://sourcemod.net

There's also major development conferences like PyCon (next week in Chicago):

http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/

[thorax]

Here's another sneaky trick I just thought of.

Set up a Google Blog Alert (or other blog search alert service) for the technologies you think make a good hacker. For example "python", "lisp" or "arc".

As you get new personal blog alerts on those topics, you probably could get a decent sampling of hackers talking about technology. Approaching them individually on their blogs might be something that could work out for you.

[ideas101]

thanks again...

[ideas101]

thanks a lot ... how do i contact you? email?