[PLUG-JOBS] Willing and Ready

[Andrew Jackman]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Mike Connors <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Or you can join forces with those of us who are interested in creating jobs
> for those purveyors of the penguin!
>

I just read the POSSE post.  Is that to what you are referring?  I
have been trying to get my department to switch to Linux.  We have a
monster of a room housing all of these computers (all running
Windows).  I wrote up a proposal to migrate all of the software to
Linux while making enhancements (like multi-threading), which would
save us CPU time and cost.  In addition, I wanted to put everything
either on Atom based machines or on embedded systems (I really wanted
to field test the beagle board!), so we could shrink the entire system
to a couple square feet, nearly eliminating our power, space, cooling,
and licensing requirements.  The selling point I loved was that our
development team would be encouraged to use open source languages and
tools which have an awesome track record for not going out of style.
Currently, we're using languages which expire in about 5-7 years,
making development/maintenance cost (both cash and stress) high.

Personally, I would die for a coding job, but my skills really aren't
at corporate level yet.  I feel sufficiently competent to do the above
mentioned port (I've seen a representative sample of the code), but
perhaps not at the clip seasoned pros can do it.  If someone was
willing to put up with a learning curve, I can offer myself as a Linux
sys-admin or programmer at convenient prices.  Right now I'm not doing
much more than department supervisor and systems monitor.


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Andrew Jackman
kd7nyq at gmail.com

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