Dear list,
Sorry for reposting. just wanna let you guys know shiftspace is still
looking for fall interns. If anyone is interested in shiftspace/
metaweb/hacking-around-whatever, feel free to drop me a line off list
or directly contact Mushon or David Nolen(who is also teaching drawing
machine this semster) for more details.
– LJ
>
> ShiftSpace has 3 internships opening up this fall. We’ve been very
> busy lately with several projects including a social layer for the
> Modern Museum of Art web site, a new ShiftSpace release (1.0!), and
> single click install WordPress plugin (collaborative annotations
> right on your blog). You can check us out here http://shiftspace.org.
>
> Front End Developer
> ===================
>
> Description:
> The ShiftSpace Open Source team is looking for a front end
> Javascript wizard to join our ranks in taking us towards the 1.0
> release as well as contributing to the WordPress plugin. The web
> browser space continues to push forward in exciting ways (HTML5,
> native audio/video, Canvas tag, CSS3, etc.) and the ShiftSpace
> project embraces these advancements.
>
> If you’re excited about cutting edge user interface work and web
> browser interface augmentation/extension, then this position is
> ideal for you.
>
> Skills Wanted:
> Experience with Python, Ruby, Javascript (jQuery or MooTools),
> CouchDB is a bonus. However, significant experience in any dynamic
> programming language is sufficient for this position. A thirst for
> knowledge is the most important attribute- if user interface design,
> animation, and the words functional programming, lambdas, and
> prototypes get you excited, then we want to talk to you.
>
> Backend Developer
> =================
>
> Description:
> The ShiftSpace Open Source team is looking for a kick-ass back end
> wizard to join our ranks in upgrading the system’s backend towards
> the 1.0 release as well as contributing to the WordPress plugin. If
> you have reasonable experience in PHP and Python we can teach you
> most of the REST (and by REST we mean CouchDB).
>
> Join us in some very exciting developments towards becoming a
> decentralized web platform and playing with the exciting new open
> source technologies out there such as CouchDB, Mozilla Jetpack,
> Google Chrome Extensions, Google Wave.
>
> Skills Wanted:
> Experience with Python, Javascript (jQuery or MooTools), CouchDB, or
> Lucene is a bonus. However, significant experience in any
> programming language is sufficient for this position. A thirst for
> knowledge is the most important attribute- if the words key-value
> store, database replication, map/reduce, functional programming, and
> JSONP sound exciting, we want to talk to you.
>
>
> Open Source Advocate / Public Outreach Organizer
> ================================================
>
> Description:
> The ShiftSpace open source team is looking for a a charismatic,
> enthusiastic and forward thinking individual to manage its community
> outreach, open source advocacy, and conceptualizing the interface
> between software development and community development. If you are a
> people’s person, enthusiastic about open source and social media and
> am self-directed, the project can benefit a lot from your
> contribution, and we’re pretty sure you can get quite a lot out of
> it too.
>
> Join us in some very exciting developments towards becoming a
> decentralized web platform and some very exciting upgrades in the
> system towards our much anticipated 1.0 release.
>
> Skills Wanted:
> Experience with advocacy, new media outreach, marketing, community
> management, political mobilization, non-for-profit/ngo sector, art
> world mechanics and (obviously) open source is a great plus. But
> frankly, if you have the passion and the spark in your eyes, we
> would love for you to get your initial experience working with us.
>
>
>
> More Information
> ================
>
> Compensation:
> This is an internship with an open source team – meaning none of us
> are getting payed and we share a credit based on our contribution.
> If we hire you to work on payed projects like the implementation of
> ShiftSpace on the MoMA website, you will get payed for your work.
>
> Other Job Requirements:
> The ideal applicant will be a team player, enthusiastic about open
> source and the web, self-taught and willing to teach others,
> patient, fan of collaboration, and petty political debates.
>
> About Us:
> http://www.ShiftSpace.org, ShiftSpace is an open source project
> involving interface hackery, social media and the future of the web.
>
> While the Internet’s design is widely understood to be open and
> distributed, control over how users interact online has given us
> largely centralized and closed systems. ShiftSpace is an Open Source
> platform that attempts to subvert this trend by providing a new
> public space on the web. By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a
> ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page to
> browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and
> interventions using various authoring tools.
>
> Contact Information:
> Name: Mushon Zer-Aviv
> Address: 274 Morgan Ave. 4th Floor
> Brooklyn, NY 11211
> Phone: 646 283 6057
> E-mail: info@shiftspace.com
>
> Application Instructions:
> Please provide a cover letter with your Resume and a few examples of
> relevant projects (preferably online) you executed and will make you
> qualify for the job. Please tell us what would make you our ideal
> hacker.
>
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