October 7, 2006 -- Linuxaudio.org announces new staff openings If applicable, please forward to your respective mailing lists. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: With increasing membership and expanding services, Linuxaudio.org is experiencing growing pains. As a result, the existing staff is overwhelmed with day-to-day operations, which is making overseeing long-term strategic goals, increasingly difficult. For this reason, we would like to invite LAU/LAD members, to consider joining our staff in order to help keep up with the daily activities. Committing to Linuxaudio.org has never been easier as the service term for these is very flexible: once you commit to any of the duties stated below, you will be able to back out at any time (obviously advance notice will be very much appreciated). Please note that these are currently volunteer positions (something that may change in the future, but one should probably not apply for these in hopes that this will happen anytime soon). The benefits include: 1) free membership 2) credit where credit is due 3) references/letters of support 4) PR for your work and your project (if applicable) 5) recognition within the Linuxaudio.org, Linux audio community, and beyond Please see the list of vacancies below: 1) Linuxaudio.org Webmaster (1 position) Duties: Update content, monitor consortium mailing lists for new updates, actively participate in the management discussions/meetings. Prerequisites: fluent English, active member of the Linux audio community. 2) Docs.linuxaudio.org creator/Webmaster (2-4 positions) Duties: Design a template for the documentation project (i.e. Wiki), solicit and format documentation submitted by others, write documentation for software projects while maintaining unified framework (i.e. similar to ALSA soundcard Matrix install how-to), participate in the consortium mailing list. Prerequisites: solid English writing skills, active member of the Linux audio community, familiarity with HTML/CSS, optimized Web graphics editing/creating skills preferred (i.e. Gimp). 3) Project Updates and Press Release Summary Writer (2 positions) Duties: Solicit new updates from members using consortium mailing list, forward monthly summary to the Linuxaudio.org Webmaster for online posting, compile Press Releases for relevant stories, participate in the consortium mailing list. Prerequisites: solid English writing skills, active member of the Linux audio community, past writing experience preferred. 4) Freelance Writers/Interviewers (unlimited number of positions) Duties: submit monthly (or bi-weekly) articles to the Linuxaudio.org (topics are left to your choice as long as they are relevant to our agenda), writers are strongly encouraged to develop a topic-driven periodical with revolving topics which are pertinent to membership and the Linuxaudio.org's mission (i.e. member project interviews, how-tos, updates, etc.), participate in the consortium mailing list. Prerequisites: solid English writing skills, active member of the Linux audio community, past writing experience preferred. 5) Membership recruiters (2 positions) Duties: recruit new members for Linuxaudio.org primarily focusing on the relevant projects within the Linux community, report new members to director for bi-monthly updates, coordinate with other recruiters, participate in the consortium mailing list and management list. Prerequisites: strong communication/recruitment skills, solid English, preferably active member of the Linux audio community. Please note that the consortium mailing list is relatively low-volume, so keeping up with it should not cause you much of an overhead. Similarly, most of the aforesaid positions bear low overhead requiring no more than a few hours per week of your time. Again, if interested, please contact Linuxaudio.org director at ico_AT_linuxaudio_DOT_org. Linuxaudio.org is now bigger and stronger than ever and we hope to continue to grow until we encompass most if not all libre Linux audio projects, as well as allied corporate vendors, institutions, artists, and non-profit organizations, therefore allowing us to best represent, nurture, and protect interests of this vibrant community. Linux audio scene is already a very powerful branch of the Linux scene and with the help of Linuxaudio.org we can make great things happen. For this reason, we hope you will consider partaking in this new exciting initiative by Linuxaudio.org. ABOUT LINUXAUDIO.ORG Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of libre software projects and artists, companies, institutions, organizations, and hardware vendors using Linux kernel-based systems and allied libre software for audio-related work, with an emphasis on professional tools for the music, production, recording, and broadcast industries. The consortium aims to co-ordinate joint projects between members, collaborate on the promotion of Linux based systems for audio tasks, offer programs beneficial to members and subsequently its mission, and provide a single point of contact for prospective industry partners. More information on the Linuxaudio.org consortium can be obtained by visiting: http://www.linuxaudio.org/ Press contacts: Ivica Ico Bukvic at (ico at linuxaudio dot org) ends