[pikewood]

"...government regulations did not allow them, even though they offered, to be volunteers if they worked for any sustained period. So they were put on the payroll of contractor QSSI as hourly workers, making what Dickerson says was "a fraction" of his Google pay"

This information troubles me, because QSSI was just hired to fix Maryland's broken Health Exchange site. It sounds like the company is cashing in on the donation of brandonb and others experts' time?

brandonb, is your team involved with the Maryland efforts, or is that a completely separate team?

[brandonb]

Unfortunately, each of the 14 states that made their own exchange used a separate team with a separate codebase.

To be clear, it's not like QSSI or anybody else is ripping us off. We're all getting paid the standard contracting rate. But many of us probably would've worked for free if they had let us.