American Stirling Company is
in the process of getting OpenACS running on our server and we need
some help. We are a small manufacturing company that specailizes in
educational and demonstration Stirling engines. Our engines can run
powered by the heat from a cup of hot coffee, or even the heat from
your
warm hand.
They are zero pollution demonstration engines.
We really want to build engines that put out some real power, but that
will have to wait until we get our new server up and running.
Here's where we are currently in this project. We have a server
co-located at a hosting company in Wichita, Kansas. It could be
turned on tomorrow. Several months ago we posted a help wanted ad
here and got some great responses. Since then we have moved our
office to San Diego and lost the contact info for several of the
people who offered to help us.
A complete outline of what we want our final product to look like is
posted on our
RDBMS page.
We expect to get there slowly and methodically. A default install of
OpenACS can do a significant portion of what we want to do.
If you are interested please check out our web site and our
RDBMS page.
In the future, my company hopes to be able to pay competitive
engineering wages. Unfortunately we are not yet able to pay the
salaries that some of very talented readers of this group are worth.
We've budgeted this position at $10.00 to $12.00 per hour. We
apologize to those of you who are worth more, but we simply can't pay
more yet.
We also will need help with moving our parts database from Microsoft
Access to PostgreSQL. The parts database needs to be available
online. We anticipate that this job will take a fair amount of work
to get going initially, then need weekly or monthly maintance in the
future. You should be able to do this work from any place where you
have fast internet access.
If you would like to be considered for this position please post your
comments on our project on our comments page. Please also e-mail me a
link to a sample of your computer code that you are very proud
of. It can be in any language, and it does not even need to be
complete, but it does need be something you are proud of.
