[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.  Open standards create
wider interoperability and 'freedom' that free software developers like.
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.  Prediction: 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.

Want to work on combining open standards and open software?  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.  All in support
of the formation of some of the most important standards affecting the
Internet and technology today.

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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