I know of some job openings. Contact me off list for more details.
The positions are full-time (or at least 30hrs / week) paid internships that should lead to a full-time salaried position in near future. If a *mix of any* of the bullet points below *describes you* or *someone you know*, please ask me some questions, send me a resume, and I'll get you in touch with some great people who need you! *All great candidates* - have taken their education into their own hands to some degree - learn quickly - have beyond-the-classroom experience / personal projects - know how to leverage tools and people in their circle (forums, interest groups, friends) to find answers to questions - are familiar with *nix and know their way around with find, grep, vim (or emacs) *Event-driven Application Developer* - could write a basic evented messaging queueing and retrieval service in about a week - can solve fizzbuzz in less than an hour - has written a simple chat server - knows the difference between a markup language and an object notation - is familiar with one of node.js, python / twisted, ruby / eventmachine, go, erlang - has used a web framework of some sort - has used C and written a queue of some sort - enjoys regex - has a good understanding of http and general networking concepts - has used wireshark to examine http and tcp traffic - has written a native mobile app (iOS, Android) *Gadget Engineer* - could build a rechargeable battery-powered usb hub in about a week - could reverse engineer a cheap usb hub from e-bay in about a day - could build a pringles cantenna in about a day - has used C and written a queue of some sort - can write object-oriented C (as if it were a programming language) - has played with Arduino, Bug, Beagle, Panda, or some other sort of project board - Envies those who own a Fluke multimeter (or owns one) *HTML5 Web App Developer* - could write a basic client-side timesheet application in about a week - has a good handle on JavaScript - knows how to use CSS selectors - knows the difference between a markup language and an object notation - knows the difference (or relationship) between HTML and the DOM - can solve fizzbuzz in less than an hour - has written a simple chat server - can draw a graph on canvas - enjoys regex - has worked with APIs such as Google Apps, facebook, twitter, etc - has a good understanding of http and general networking concepts - has used wireshark or firebug to examine http traffic - has written a native mobile app (iOS, Android) *Linux Techie++* - could set up a VPS with nginx, gitosis, git pull hooks, and reverse-proxied apps in about a week - has built a kernel - has built an out-of-tree kernel module - can use bash almost as if were a programming language (but has the good sense not to) - can write object-oriented C (as if it were a programming language) - enjoys regex - has used C and written a queue of some sort - has used wireshark to examine traffic - is familiar with one of node.js, python / twisted, ruby / eventmachine, go, erlang AJ ONeal
-- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
