[linux-audio-announce] The AGNULA project calls for help: webmaster(s) needed

[The AGNULA Team]

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     [Sorry for cross-posting.  Feel free to forward around]

Florence, 29 May 2004

+++ THE AGNULA PROJECT CALLS FOR HELP: WEBMASTER(S) NEEDED

The AGNULA project is in dire need  of a fresh and motivated webmaster
- better  yet,  a team of  webmasters  able to work cooperatively  and
replace each other in times of need.  If you  are not a developer or a
packager, this  is  your chance  to contribute  to  our  common goal -
spreading Libre Software in the professional audio field.

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The AGNULA project is in dire need  of a fresh and motivated webmaster
- better  yet,  a team of  webmasters  able to work cooperatively  and
replace each other in times of need.  If you  are not a developer or a
packager, this  is  your chance  to contribute  to  our  common goal -
spreading Libre Software in the professional audio field.

As our  long-time   users know,  the  AGNULA  web  site (specifically,
http://www.agnula.org/) has  for a long  time in  need of  a reshaping
effort.  Many informations    contained therein are obsoleted,   since
AGNULA is not an EC funded project anymore, and the partners which are
actively working   on   the  various   AGNULA  sub-projects   are  not
necessarily the same as 2002, when all of this began.

We need a webmaster, and we need it now! :)

Applicants should:

- be well aware that this is a volunteer position.  We are not able to
  pay anyone for working on our website right now; [0]

- know Plone reasonably  well.  We are not  particularly tied to using
  Plone as our  platform for http://www.agnula.org/, but our webmaster
  should  at least be  able to  export all  the  necessary data and in
  general  analyze  the  current   situation  through  Plone  and Zope
  management interfaces;

- know   the  relevant  W3C   standards that apply   to    the work at
  hand. Right know HTML  4.x and CSS  1.x / 2.x  will do the  job just
  fine;

- be moderately fluent in english.  Contents for the website shouldn't
  be directly   provided  by the  webmaster,  but  a basic ability  to
  understand "what goes where" is a plus. :)

- have a positive, proactive   attitude towards the job.   Inside  the
  AGNULA project  we  give   the  greatest  freedom possible to   each
  volunteer's creativity and  imagination, bearing in mind some  basic
  prerequisites (i.e.  no  proprietary technology or  protocol used in
  our day-to-day work and in what we produce);

If you think you are the right person for the job, don't hesitate
writing us at:

users at lists.agnula.org

So that all  our community can discuss about   your ideas and how  you
want to proceed.

Don't hesitate to write us even  though somebody else already did: our
goal is to create a medium-sized pool of volunteers able to handle all
web-related tasks  inside AGNULA.  We  perfectly understands that more
often than not "real life" takes precedence over what we would like to
do, but we'd  like nonetheless to  provide the  AGNULA project with  a
continuos support as far as the website and related tasks go.

Thank you for your time reading this, and thank you in advance for all
the help you will be able to give.

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About AGNULA:   Agnula (acronym for   A  GNU/Linux Audio distribution,
pronounced with a strong  g) is  the name of   a project funded  until
April  2004  by    the   European  Commission   (number  of  contract:
IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical
mass).  After the end of the funded period,  AGNULA is continuing as a
volunteer   based project,  aiming  to  spread Libre  Software in  the
professional audio/video arena.

Best regards,

--
The AGNULA Team                                   info at agnula.org        
Our mailing lists:                        http://lists.agnula.org/
Our web site:                               http://www.agnula.org/
"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"
 
[0] As  you might know,   we are working  on  finding new  sources  of
funding for  the AGNULA project.  Once we  have  a formal structure in
place which can decide  on the allocation of money,  and once we  have
the money :), we could possibly  be in a position  to pay a webmaster.
Of course, we can't do any promise at the moment.