Hi

My new years resolution is to become Azure proficient and, because I believe the best way to learn is to do, I have set myself a task of creating an Azure hosted application. This is not a financially lucrative idea but rather a project that has elements of all the things I think I need to learn or practice.

I have bought myself an MSDN license and this comes with $150/month Azure credit that could be used. I also have the source code up on VisualStudio.com under the project name "TaskBazaar".

Currently I am putting together an underlying architecture (based on CQRS) and once I have that done will start on the UI side - will probably need a lot of guidance on that as I have not done much web stuff in earnest.

If anyone is interested in contributing or even getting read-only access for the source code let me know. If sufficient interest I will set up a project communications thread and post all the details there.

Overview
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The TaskBazaar is an application that allows companies and organisations to set up internal task pools whereby anyone who has a need can set up a task and have that task undertaken by any available fellow employees or organisation members who have the required skills.

The completion of tasks is recorded and this, in turn, allows the company or organisation to build a searchable and verifiable database of employees and skillsets.
Anyone seeking a particular skill can look up tasks performed that required that skill and get referral information from the task owner as to which employees demonstrated aptitudes in these tasks.