Velgie Farming

Outsourcing is contracting with another company or person to do a particular function. Offshoring is to do outsourcing overseas or in a separate country. At ownacoder.com, owning an elgi is having a lifetime relationship with an offshore worker before college graduation. An elgi who lives in Vietnam is called a velgie. Raising a velgie means getting a college student in Vietnam to bet his future in that of his master in the west and, through ownacoder.com, allow his skills to be sold and thus owned in the open market across the globe.

A farmer is someone with an ownership interest in crops or livestock, and who provides land or management in their production. Someone who has an ownership interest in, and provides facilities or management in the production of, velgies is also called a farmer, though neither of crops nor of livestock but rather of human capital, specifically, in Vietnam.

This article, the first writing on the subject, will be updated on a regular basis in order to reflect any new methods and techniques as they come up.

What’s the difference between an Indian offshore worker and a velgie? A velgie does not speak English as well as a worker in India but a velgie has longer lasting loyalty and gives his master fewer headaches in the management of human resources. As with workers elsewhere, an Indian offshore worker tends to move around for career betterment. Velgies prefer job security over job advancement. And lifetime job security for a million offshore workers based in Vietnam is what ownacoder.com has in mind. Such a vision is no longer unthinkable, thanks to Vietnam’s membership to WTO at the start of 2007.

As specified in extreme programming methodology velgie masters are required to give work orders in form of user stories. Through ownacoder.com, both velgies and masters will be supported with online resources and tools for machine translation. Therefore, in the long run, the lack of English fluency in speech will not be a major disadvantage to a velgie in the open world market.

To be sure, velgie farming is not slavery! Velgies are neither compelled to work nor deprived of personal freedom. Velgies sign themselves up to allow ownership of their skills to be bought and sold on the open market. In this way, they and their family can live a life without worries about job securities. When you own an velgie , you do not own the person but rather the  right to use or sell his skills. The contract length, lasting from a year or two up to a decade or two, is what makes velgies much less expensive than traditional outsourcing terms.