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.