Hello, Freexian (my company) is doing rather well and I'm looking for help, either on a salaried basis or on a contractor basis. I tried to describe the various roles that I handle within Freexian. I would like to find someone who is able/willing to handle all of them... but we can also split them between two persons. Note that many of the tasks require you to be a Debian developer with upload privileges. All the work is to be done remotely.
LTS / ELTS Manager ------------------ Duties: • Follow the work of the paid LTS / ELTS contributors, ensuring that they live up to our expectations • Ensure we have enough LTS / ELTS contributors to handle the work load • Follow the discussions on mailing lists (private *[email protected] alias, public lists like debian-lts and debian-security-tracker), step in or ask a paid LTS contributor to step in when required (when problems introduced by paid contributors are reported, when sponsors/customers ask questions, etc.) • Be pro-active, make proposals to improve the general LTS workflow Tasks: • Dispatch work hours to LTS / ELTS contributors • Ensure all the paid contributors have published their report and publish a monthly report on behalf of Freexian (3h/month) • Recruit new paid LTS contributors (when the number of contributors is not sufficient to handle the work load) • Respond to queries of sponsors / customers and of paid contributors. Possible tasks (unsure, to be discussed): • Invoice customers/sponsors. • Onboard new sponsors. • Find new sponsors. FTR, LTS refers to https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html and ELTS to https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/ LTS Contributor --------------- Duties: • Handle the day-to-day work of a paid LTS / ELTS contributor Tasks: • Prepare and release security updates for LTS / ELTS • Handle CVE triaging on a regular basis • Improve the LTS-specific infrastructure • Improve the Debian security infrastructure in general Skills required: • Be fluent in many programming languages including C, be able to learn new programming languages • Have a good knowledge of the various kind of security issues • Debian packaging Debian Packager --------------- Tasks: • Estimate the time required to package a given piece of software • Create (policy compliant) Debian packages of various software • Maintain packages (in Debian or outside) Skills required: • Debian packaging • Knowledge of many programming languages and familiarity with their ecosystem of tools (including their Debian packaging tools) Requirements: • Debian developer status Debian Expert ------------- Tasks: • Communicate (by email or by video-conference) with the customer to understand his need/problem and provide useful advice, possibly under the form of a report that you will have to write. • Handle technical support requests, mostly by email, with the goal of solving the problem at hand but also to teach the customer so that he can deal by himself with a similar problem in the future. Skills required: • Expert knowledge of Debian and good knowledge of the most popular free software available in Debian. • Be fluent in English. • Bonus: be fluent in French (Freexian has a few French-speaking customers) Python/Django Developer ----------------------- Tasks: • Build new infrastructure for Debian LTS / ELTS. • Build new web project to easily replicate the “shared resource/work” concept of Debian LTS / ELTS in other contexts (free software related or not). In this role, the customer is Freexian itself, either investing in its own infrastructure or building a new service that could become a new source of income after launch. This role could be used by a Freexian employee when the work available in the other roles is not sufficient to fill their schedule. --- If you are interested in this job offer, please reply to this email and get back to me. Feel free to forward this email to anyone that could be interested. Regards, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Freexian SARL ◈ Tel: +33 (0)6 88 21 35 47 https://www.freexian.com
