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From: bart () decrem ! com (Bart Decrem)
Date: 2003-07-25 0:50:39
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Hi folks,
During boom years, this message would definitely be spam, but in those
lean years, I'm hoping that it's not quite a mortal sin to post this
announcement on the Python list, especially since Chandler is entirely
build in Python.
I'm helping with recruiting for the open source applications foundation
in San Francisco. Mitch Kapor, who runs OSAF, is (m)itching to speed
up development on Chandler, an innovative open source PIM project, but
the team is chronically understaffed.
I think Chandler has great potential. Rather than try to explain it
myself, here's how Mitch explains it:
http://www.osafoundation.org/Chandler_Compelling_Vision.htm.
In addition to working on a very interesting open source end-user
application, there's a couple of other really compelling things about
working at OSAF:
- The team: It's an amazing group of people: Mitch Kapor, Andy, Michael
Toy (who pushed a bunch of Netscape releases out the door), John
Anderson (who wrote WriteNow), Mitchell Baker (of Mozilla fame). See
the people page at http://www.osafoundation.org/people.htm
- A hub for interesting open source initiatives. OSAF is helping the
Mozilla Foundation get off the ground and we're working on several
other significant open source initiatives
- An incredible office: Really cool digs, south of Market, dog friendly
- Great, relax work environment, no 80 hour weeks.
Below is an overview of what kind of people we're looking to hire.
Please send me mail (bart@decrem.com) if you're interested or know
people I should be talking to.
Bart Decrem
OSAF Hiring Wishlist
OSAF is looking for people of all shapes and sizes. Obviously we would
like to hire the best people we can find. All people we are looking
for would:
• Live in San Francisco or be willing to commute to San Francisco three
days a week
• Have significant experience with object oriented languages
• Be able to understand and work with large bodies of code they did not
write without getting too cynical.
• Be fun to hang out with.
It would be nice, but not necessary for people to also have:
• Significant experience working with a functional language
• Python experience
• Strong contribution to other open source projects
As our plans for the future are still sketchy, it is impossible to
write complete job descriptions for the people we want to hire, we
would be happy to hire people with combinations of these skills.
User Interface Implementation. Someone needs to turn the pretty
drawings into something which works spectacularly well. This person
would ideally have worked on well though of end-user software on more
than one platform and be proud to show off her or his past work.
Network Internals Architect – Inside Chandler will be a component
which manages asynchronous data streams from many different sources and
provides the plumbing for Chandler. We need someone who can design and
implement this.
E-Mail data wizard. We will need someone to evaluate exiting code for
communicating with e-mail servers and parsing e-mail messsages, make a
fix/build decision, and then hook it to the networking and data
repository frameworks.
wxPython platform wizard. Someone who is familiar with with win32, gtk
and mac toolbox who can help us polish wxwindows to be a modern ui
platform.
Toolkit implementor – Someone who has written a fair share of UI
toolkits in their life and would be interested in helping us extend
wWindows into a fairly high-level toolkit for data based applications.
Indexing expert. Chandler will require full text indexes for
constantly changing data, we need someone to show us the way.
We will need rich text editing and HTML display in wxWindows. Someone
familiar with parts of this landscape who could take us where we need
to go would be excellent. Gecko/Konqueror, CSS, XBL, XSL, yadda yadda
yadda.
qa coordinator – eventually there will be some community based qa
effort with an osaf contact managing the work. this person needs to be
able to evaluate the quality of tests and to be fliexible in choosing
approaches to testing and verification. It is unlikely that someone
from a QA organization will be able to do this job.
tech writer – it would be good to have someone who wrote well, it would
be nice if that person also had some other skill on this list
Another development manager. We imagine the org chart will eventually
require the hirhing of a second manager. This person needs to be
organized enough to provide structure, but not so organized that they
provide calicification.
Hi folks,
During boom years, this message would definitely be spam, but in those
lean years, I'm hoping that it's not quite a mortal sin to post this
announcement on the Python list, especially since Chandler is entirely
build in Python.
<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>I'm helping with recruiting for the
open source applications foundation in San Francisco. Mitch Kapor,
who runs OSAF, is (m)itching to speed up development on Chandler, an
innovative open source PIM project, but the team is chronically
understaffed.
I think Chandler has great potential. Rather than try to explain it
myself, here's how Mitch explains it:
<underline><color><param>1996,1996,FFFC</param>http://www.osafoundation.org/Chandler_Compelling_Vision.htm.</color></underline>
In addition to working on a very interesting open source end-user
application, there's a couple of other really compelling things about
working at OSAF:
- The team: It's an amazing group of people: Mitch Kapor, Andy,
Michael Toy (who pushed a bunch of Netscape releases out the door),
John Anderson (who wrote WriteNow), Mitchell Baker (of Mozilla fame).
See the people page at
<underline><color><param>1996,1996,FFFC</param>http://www.osafoundation.org/people.htm</color></underline>
- A hub for interesting open source initiatives. OSAF is helping the
Mozilla Foundation get off the ground and we're working on several
other significant open source initiatives
- An incredible office: Really cool digs, south of Market, dog friendly
- Great, relax work environment, no 80 hour weeks.
Below is an overview of what kind of people we're looking to hire.
Please send me mail (bart@decrem.com) if you're interested or know
people I should be talking to.
Bart Decrem
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Hiring Wishlist
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OSAF is looking for people of all shapes and sizes. Obviously we
would like to hire the best people we can find. All people we are
looking for would:
• Live in San Francisco or be willing to commute to San Francisco
three days a week
• Have significant experience with object oriented languages
• Be able to understand and work with large bodies of code they did
not write without getting too cynical.
• Be fun to hang out with.
It would be nice, but not necessary for people to also have:
• Significant experience working with a functional language
• Python experience
• Strong contribution to other open source projects
As our plans for the future are still sketchy, it is impossible to
write complete job descriptions for the people we want to hire, we
would be happy to hire people with combinations of these skills.
User Interface Implementation. Someone needs to turn the pretty
drawings into something which works spectacularly well. This person
would ideally have worked on well though of end-user software on more
than one platform and be proud to show off her or his past work.
Network Internals Architect – Inside Chandler will be a component
which manages asynchronous data streams from many different sources
and provides the plumbing for Chandler. We need someone who can
design and implement this.
E-Mail data wizard. We will need someone to evaluate exiting code for
communicating with e-mail servers and parsing e-mail messsages, make a
fix/build decision, and then hook it to the networking and data
repository frameworks.
wxPython platform wizard. Someone who is familiar with with win32,
gtk and mac toolbox who can help us polish wxwindows to be a modern ui
platform.
Toolkit implementor – Someone who has written a fair share of UI
toolkits in their life and would be interested in helping us extend
wWindows into a fairly high-level toolkit for data based applications.
Indexing expert. Chandler will require full text indexes for
constantly changing data, we need someone to show us the way.
We will need rich text editing and HTML display in wxWindows.
Someone familiar with parts of this landscape who could take us where
we need to go would be excellent. Gecko/Konqueror, CSS, XBL, XSL,
yadda yadda yadda.
qa coordinator – eventually there will be some community based qa
effort with an osaf contact managing the work. this person needs to
be able to evaluate the quality of tests and to be fliexible in
choosing approaches to testing and verification. It is unlikely that
someone from a QA organization will be able to do this job.
tech writer – it would be good to have someone who wrote well, it
would be nice if that person also had some other skill on this list
Another development manager. We imagine the org chart will eventually
require the hirhing of a second manager. This person needs to be
organized enough to provide structure, but not so organized that they
provide calicification.</fontfamily>
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