[Fwd: Now Recruiting: New Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution project at ParTecs.com]

Dear GNU/Linux desktop distribution expert,

we have plans to hire a geographically-distributed team to develop a 
newer version of our Desktop GNU/Linux-based distribution (NPDE). 
Please, feel free to forward this email to people that you think may 
qualify to play a leading role in the creation of such department within 
ParTecs.

NPDE 1.0 will be launched and distributed next january 2005, in 
thousands of copies, at the largets expo of transnational political 
organizations, the World Social Forum 5 in Porto Alegre.

At such event, we will offer deployment, customization, training and 
support services, based on our own NPDE 1.0, to major international 
political parties, union and non-governmental organizations.

Our immediate goal is, therefore, to recruit, in the next 1-2 months, 
the following team of employees and consultants:
-  3-5 technical experts based in our Pune office in India.
-  2 part-time (or full-time) Italy-based high-level expert that can 
provide some or all of the following functions: project management, 
client admin trianing, large-scale deployment management, client admin 
support, requirements acquisition. Such people will either be based in 
Rome or able to travel to Rome or elsewhere for 4-10 working days per 
month. Applicants should  be highly responsible and apt at growing into 
managerial and sales positions.

TARGET USERS

- Typical users will be a simple members or mid-level officials of a 
Europe-wide political party, using a personal PC or a party PC (personal 
and/or shared) at a party local neighborhood office.
- Power users may include elected officials and party leaders. They may 
each be provided with a personally-encrypted Live/installable CD (and/or 
Mini-CD) version. Such CD (s) may be coupled with an encrypted USB for 
secure carryable data storage and/or authentication (for installed 
desktops).

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

- Will be a real working version that may potentially be deployed by 
interested customers with or without onsite technical help, as opposed 
to our earlier version.
- Will include both a Live and an installable version.
- Will enable language and localization (currency, numbering,units of 
measure, etc.) both at boot-up stage, as well as enable switching 
between languages/localization setups (at least english, spanish, 
french, portuguese, chinese, hindi; but also others).


INSTALLABILITY
(Live on RAM and permanent on hardrive)

- Will include the latest and greatest of installers, such that 
installation is easy on windows systems as dual-boot or as Live CD.
- Will possibly support well: most videocards; most motherboards;older 
printers; newest cameras; EU DSL and regular modems.
- Will provide a user-friendly installed (possibly graphic?) that 
enables the largest majority of typical users to go through it in a few 
10s of minutes, without onsite support and with minimal telephone support.
- Installation process should require a minimum of onsite technical 
support and enable full maintainance from remote via SSH and via a 
VNC-like tool.
- Applications must include: work processing; fax and receiving sending; 
flyers preparing and printing, PDF editing and viewing, web authoring, 
multi-user email client. Such applications will be selected based on 
quality, maturity, features etc. but also on the availability in 
localized version for many of the target languages (possibly all EU 
languages)

SECURITY AND PRIVACY

- Will enable high and very security and privacy while sending and 
receiving emails and faxes, as well as during web sessions or docuemtn 
editing and viewing.
-- For high security users (such as organization offcials), we may 
distribute CDs especially burned for each member that include unique 
user keys that are read each time by web, email, fax and 
document-viewing/editing applications. Such users may use the fully 
encrypted applications Live form the CD as well as installed on the 
harddrive.
- Will enable secure and private sending and receiving emails.(...)
- Will enable secure and private sending and receiving of faxes.(...)

INTEGRATION WITH PARTECS 1.0
(our server-based groupware application)

- A installable/Live modified version of Zope and PT 1.0 will be 
included in the CD.
- Such local client interface to PT 1.0 will enable users to work 
offline reviewing, interacting and submitting documents on a local 
mirror copy which includes most of the data contained in the server 
centralized reporsitory.
- Beyond, enabling offline us by web users of PT 1.0, it also provides 
for a very efficient and fast way to interact with the system for users 
that have slow and/or expensive internet connections.

BASE DISTRIBUTION

NPDE will be build by extending and modifying an existing gnu/linux 
distribution.
We are enclined to use an existing Debian-based distribution, such as 
Debian-NP, as we did for the first version last year.
However, we will initially examine existing distribution comparison data 
and perform our own comparisons to make sure we develop NPDE 1.0 based 
on the most adequate distribution.

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If you feel you may qualify, please contact me and
Venkat-3C5j4j/[email protected] with your references.

Best Regards,

Rufo Guerreschi

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Rufo Guerreschi, CEO*
ParTecs - Participatory Technologies
*www.partecs.com <http://www.partecs.com/>
Mobile: +39 335 7545620
Office: +39 06 53273090
Skype ID (VoIp audio): rguerreschi
Email : rg-3C5j4j/[email protected]
Via di Donna Olimpia, 11 A2
Rome, Italy  - 00152
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