Will Thompson sends this:
Interested in writing free software as a part time job? Here at
Collabora Ltd.[0] we're looking for students to work on Telepathy[1] and
Empathy[2] (an instant messaging framework and a client implemented on
top of it, respectively), to help us bring it them to feature parity
with other IM clients (think file transfer) and work on some of the
ideas we don't have enough hands to implement (such as: an IM daemon you
can run on a server and reattach to from whatever computer you find
yourself at, like an IRC proxy but for all your IM protocols; running a
Quake server for a few of your IM contacts without having to faff around
with port forwarding and distributing IP addresses; portability to
Windows and OS X; etc.).
If this sounds like your kind of thing, send your CV over to
jobs(a)collabora.co.uk. Experience with glib, Gtk+, and other open source
libraries is an advantage, but not essential; we're a helpful bunch, and
most of us started out as student part-timers. :-) If you'd like to talk
about Telepathy or Collabora, feel free to drop by the #telepathy IRC
channel on Freenode, or get in touch with me on IRC (I'm wjt on #compsoc
on OxIRC, or on Freenode, OFTC, etc.), email or Jabber
(will.thompson(a)collabora.co.uk in both cases).
[0]
http://www.collabora.co.uk/
[1]
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/
[2]
http://live.gnome.org/Empathy
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David North
Treasurer and Systems Administration Co-ordinator
Oxford Computer Society
07746 388 044 // northie on OxIRC