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  • Subject: [cc-fr] offre d'emploi : Creative Commons : AgShare Software Engineer
  • Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:41:14 +0100

offre disponible sur cette page
http://creativecommons.org/about/opportunities/#engineer

Job Summary

Creative Commons is seeking a Software Engineer to help improve,
extend, and maintain software as part of the AgShare grant, as well as
work with partners to assist with deployment and training. The
contractor will work under the supervision of, and report to, the CTO.
Additional coordination will be provided by the Director of the
Education Program.

The AgShare project is focused on building an agricultural education
community among African institutions of higher education, founded on
the materials and tools of open educational resources (OER). This
means that the community is expected to work collaboratively to foster
innovation and access to agricultural education through the use of
Creative Commons-licensed materials. Creative Commons is tasked with
providing technical leadership, especially around search and discovery
of OER, by customizing our the DiscoverEd software (based on Apache
Nutch) and by consulting with and training the AgShare partners in
these matters.

The ideal candidate will have an interest in interest in education,
agriculture, African development, and other issues of relevance to the
project.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

* Support AgShare grant technology needs
* Analyze user specifications and requirements
* Develop, test, debug, and document programs
* Write operational documentation
* Revise and update programs and documentation as required
* Provide deployment assistance and training for Nutch-based application
* Ability to work independently and accommodate shifting schedules

Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities

* Travel to Africa two times (minimum) to lead training

Skill Requirements

* Excellent written and spoken technical communication
* Excellent knowledge of Java, RDF, XHTML, web services, software
design, engineering techniques and best practices
* Excellent debugging skills
* Excellent knowledge of Linux and open source development tools
(including Subversion, git, etc)
* Experience with Apache Nutch, and Lucene is desirable
* Experience with Python is desirable

Job Environment

Prefer local (San Francisco) candidates; remote candidates with
excellent communication skills considered.
How to apply

Applications and questions can be sent to:

Jennifer Yip
Operations Director
jennifer [at] creativecommons.org
fax: 415.278.9419

Thank you for your interest in our organization. Please NO phone calls.



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