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Hi William, |
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Just about to hit the road so just a brief reply, |
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Primarily we're looking for someone who really knows Gentoo and is strong on |
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security who can take on our sys admin needs, and streamline how we do |
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things etc. |
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- we're outgrowing what we've currently got going on. So I appreciate you |
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forwarding my post. If someone's interested in doing this on contract, we'd |
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be interested too. |
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Like I said we use JBoss, so if they had experience of this it would be a |
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plus. |
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I've been meaning to contribute to Gentoo JEE support but I'm just slammed |
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as it is. |
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If we hired someone full time who could take this on it could benefit our |
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company and the community .Alternatively if my time was freed up a bit |
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perhaps I could. |
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We're going to need a JEE developer pretty soon too, at least someone who |
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can understudy what we've got going on so we won't be totally stuck if a key |
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person is indisposed (and we're all long-time skydivers here!), so right now |
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if someone's out there who can do both and is looking for a job it could be |
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a good fit. |
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The best sys admins I know use Gentoo (and turned me onto it some time ago |
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[my own background is JEE dev, electronic engineer before that]), I guess |
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because you have to be prepared to go that extra mile, and I figured this |
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would be a good place to look. |
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I hope that clarifies it a bit. Basically at the stage we're at right now we |
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can juggle things a bit to suit the profile of a good applicant. |
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Cheers, |
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Gerry |
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On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:17 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. <wltjr@g.o> |
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> I realized I wasn't clear in addressing the posting, and just one aspect |
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> of it. Without providing my reasoning, stupid assumptions :) |
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> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 21:44 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> > I forwarded your message to gentoo-core so that it catches all Gentoo |
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> > developers. Besides wltjr and ali_bush (New Zealand) the Gentoo Java |
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> > project members are Europeans. |
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> I failed to mention in my posting that basically based on the above. |
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> While there are likely several current Gentoo Devs familiar with Java on |
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> Gentoo. I am not sure how many are doing stuff with JEE on Gentoo or |
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> other distros. If they were they would be on the Gentoo Java team :) |
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> So aside from what Betelgeuse mentioned above. Not sure the response you |
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> will get if your seeking to hire actual Gentoo developers. Thus I only |
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> addressed the contributing to Gentoo side of things. Since it was |
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> implied any person hired and/or the company would be looking to |
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> contribute back to Gentoo. |
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> Not sure if you were looking to hire from say the community. Thus the |
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> posting to the list? Not that there is anything wrong with the email |
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> being forward for other Gentoo devs to see. Just not sure the response. |
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> So given the void in talent, so to speak. Which I assumed was more |
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> visible to others; lack of package JEE stuff in Gentoo, etc. Wasn't |
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> really addressing the employment side of things. |
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> What are your requirements, or in other words how can we help? Are you |
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> looking to hire Gentoo Developers, and have them contribute to Gentoo as |
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> part of satisfying your needs, etc? Or looking to hire from the Gentoo |
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> Java community? |
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> Personally while I am in the US, I am self employed. Short of |
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> contractual work. Most likely not something I personally would be |
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> interested in. I don't do much if anything with JEE, just use some |
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> components/pieces. Although I have wanted for a long time to see |
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> support, and effort put into JEE on Gentoo. Since we have little to |
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> none. So far no one has stepped up. Any potential there, I jump all over |
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> it, so hopefully one day. Someone will package and maintain JEE app |
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> servers, etc on Gentoo. |
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> -- |
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> William L. Thomson Jr. |
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> amd64/Java/Trustees |
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> Gentoo Foundation |
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