Just a heads-up to let people know that the job spec for the work Michael Heimbinder recently asked about on this list has now been submitted to jobs.perl.org. He says it should show up on the site very soon!
Once it's visible there, I'll post to london.pm to make sure people know about it - unless someone else spots it and gets there first :) London.pm has enough international members that it'll likely percolate quite quickly from there to somewhere more local to Michael.
I'm quite excited about this, not only because it'll mean we get to be famous OMG famous, but because I hope it might bring some new blood into the project, which would be fantastic.
Michael's asked if he and I could chat on the phone about OpenGuides. He's going to phone me at 4pm BST on Wednesday; I can pass on anything that any of you lot might like to tell or ask him. I'll have my laptop in front of me during the call, so may possibly be grabbable on IRC, but don't rely on it.
Kake
On Tue 03 Apr 2007, Kake L Pugh kake@earth.li wrote:
Just a heads-up to let people know that the job spec for the work Michael Heimbinder recently asked about on this list has now been submitted to jobs.perl.org. He says it should show up on the site very soon!
Kake
On Tue 03 Apr 2007, Kake L Pugh kake@earth.li wrote:
Michael's asked if he and I could chat on the phone about OpenGuides. He's going to phone me at 4pm BST on Wednesday; I can pass on anything that any of you lot might like to tell or ask him. I'll have my laptop in front of me during the call, so may possibly be grabbable on IRC, but don't rely on it.
A reminder: Michael's phoning me in about an hour - anyone got any questions for him?
Kake
OK, so I just spent about 45 minutes on the phone talking to Michael. He's really enthusiastic about the whole thing, and has also had quite a bit of interest in the job. He's going to wait for a few more CVs, then talk to the top candidates, and then he'd like me to talk to them as well. (Dom should probably be involved in those conversations too, or even do it on his own if he prefers; I think Michael picked me to talk to because I was the one that answered his emails, not for any other reason.)
I think the main issues for his project are going to be user authentication, handling spam, custom metadata, custom queries, and custom design. Regarding the latter, I sent him the link to the CSS zen garden and explained that this is the sort of thing I'm aiming for in OpenGuides' HTML. Basically, I think OpenGuides can be made to do what he wants without too much convolution, it just needs someone with the time to work on it. Like, someone being paid to do so :)
Yay!
Kake
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:02:51PM +0100, Kake L Pugh wrote:
OK, so I just spent about 45 minutes on the phone talking to Michael. He's really enthusiastic about the whole thing, and has also had quite a bit of interest in the job. He's going to wait for a few more CVs, then talk to the top candidates, and then he'd like me to talk to them as well. (Dom should probably be involved in those conversations too, or even do it on his own if he prefers; I think Michael picked me to talk to because I was the one that answered his emails, not for any other reason.)
I think the main issues for his project are going to be user authentication, handling spam, custom metadata, custom queries, and custom design. Regarding the latter, I sent him the link to the CSS zen garden and explained that this is the sort of thing I'm aiming for in OpenGuides' HTML. Basically, I think OpenGuides can be made to do what he wants without too much convolution, it just needs someone with the time to work on it. Like, someone being paid to do so :)
Cool, it sounds like there is the possibility for us to get some valuable improvements into the main codebase. It would be good to get whoever gets employed on board and up to speed on our buglists and so on.
Dominic.
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