Re: Employment

(I should have said JEE 5, sorry)

Gerry

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:04 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Gerry,
>
> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:53 -0400, Gerry Smith wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Not sure where best to mention this but we are looking for full or
> > part time help in USA maintaining about 20 Gentoo boxes with JBoss /
> > Tomcat / Apache / MySql. Must be strong on security. Optional travel
> > coming up (Panama). Could help with J2EE dev too.
>
> Great, we really have no one working on JEE support in Gentoo. J2EE is a
> bit old these days with even JEE 5 being replaced in the next year or so
> with JEE 6.
>
> >  We're considering working on improving Gentoo support for JBoss or
> > migrating to a supported app server, so could be a good opportunity to
> > contribute to Gentoo during the working day.
>
> Excellent, pretty much just dive in. Start taking care of what ever
> needs you have. As you progress and interact with us we will grant you
> overlay commit access to the various Java overlays. Based on your level
> of interest, skill, etc, you can look to move on to a full on dev, take
> quizzes etc.
>
> This is our page we point people to as all the normal stuff we tell
> people when inquiring about helping out. It's entirely volunteer,
> nothing is assigned and things are occasionally delegated. It's mostly
> just scratching ones own itches or etc. So what one does or doesn't do
> with regard to contributions is entirely up to the individual.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/getting-involved.xml
>
> --
> William L. Thomson Jr.
> amd64/Java/Trustees
> Gentoo Foundation
>
>