Hello Martin, MD> Just passing this along Is it just me who find that this "volunteer"'s thing is going way to far. I mean this is a clear job offer and freenode does not seem to be so small that they can't afford at least a few bucks to get this thing done (and i don't want to discuss here why every dollar for tsunami victims paid to UNICEF is making the situation in south-east-asia more worth). I can only hope that everybody who is considering supporting for this stops for a moment and think if he/she really wants to participates into the continuesly reduction of programmers wage and more important: "value". I worked a long time myself for a very small not-for-profit organization but even they would not come up with such an offer for free. MD> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MD> http://dunnage.blogspot.com/2005/04/seeking-volunteer-coding-help.html MD> WANTED: Small not-for-profit entity seeks volunteer help in the form of MD> obsessive coders (C, Ruby, Python) willing to devote long hours to a MD> community project. Candidates must be accustomed to writing clear, MD> straightforward code and must be amenable to license assignment a la MD> FSF. MD> The project requires coders who are willing to write informal MD> requirements documents based on user input and specification, as well as MD> being extremely willing to "scratch someone else's itch." The project MD> includes a web-based utility environment and a non-web-based interactive MD> chat environment. MD> The web component will be modular and will provide user authentication, MD> incident reporting and volunteer time scheduling, as well as allow MD> configuration of external services. PostgreSQL and MySQL experience MD> needed. LDAP, XML-RPC and SOAP expertise highly desirable. Code reuse is MD> encouraged where it does not interfere with ease of use and design MD> goals. Professional-quality artwork and layout needed; site must be web MD> standards compliant. MD> The non-web component consists of a modular interactive chat framework MD> designed to replace a conventional IRC daemon, with abstracted session MD> management and modules to implement IRC, jabber and other eventually MD> other client protocols. User and discussion group configuration MD> primarily via web component. Performance is extremely important. MD> If you're interested in helping out, please email me at levin at MD> freenode dot net or stop by irc.freenode.net and message lilo. Thanks. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's