[Gnhlug-jobs] Open Source Developer Job working in support of Standards

[Greg Rundlett]

Open and freely available technology standards are a good thing.  They are
especially important to developers of free software.  Without freely
available and open standards, your free software project would have no mass
adoption.  Free and open standards are critically linked to free and open
technology.

Just recently the ISO made the Open Document Format (ODF) a standard,
broadening the 'official' stamp on the standard that OASIS member companies
created.  In shorter than 10 years, ODF is going to have an even greater
positive impact on the information society compared with the way that HTML
did over the past 10 years.  In the past 10 years, HTML as a standard data
format has allowed people across the globe to author billions of documents
that can be parsed, indexed, searched, retrieved and read with all kinds of
software.  Unfortunately only a small fraction of 'authors' know how to
generate HTML documents.  Meanwhile, anyone who knows how to use a
computer/word processor can create ODF documents.  Suddenly the barrier to
authoring just got a lot lower.  I could go on with this discussion, but the
point is that really groundbreaking positive work is being done by OASIS and
other standards bodies that helps to shape the technical age that we live
in.

If you would like to use your skills as an Open Source developer, OASIS is
looking for you.  We have an infrastructure that runs on LAMP with Debian
GNU-Linux.  We use open source development methodologies and tools such as
IM, IRC, wikis, SVN and mailing lists.  We run Content Management and other
applications on top of Zope, Python, PHP and Perl.  We use MySQL and Apache.


http://www.oasis-open.org/jobs/sr-webdeveloper.php
The job is onsite but remote applicants are urged to apply as well.
If you have considerable talent and would like to put it to good use, then
please contact greg.rundlett AT oasis-open DOT org.
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