One last thing to all those who are looking to volunteer. While I have no
authority with the Trisquel project (that's all Rubén) I do have authority
with ThinkPenguin (for those who aren't aware- I'm the CEO) and we are
looking for a person to work on the web site. It's a paying gig that would
absolutely benefit the Trisquel project.
Filling this "position" benefits the Trisquel project (indirectly):
1. Freeing my time means we can move forward faster on other projects (like
getting chipsets supported, getting compatible hardware manufactured, etc),
improving availability of compatible hardware in places that may be more
challenging (countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere), and
organising/managing various little things (boring work, but it's not that
bad) etc
2. If you have the time and not the money/skills/job this is a perfect
opportunity to make money and pick up the skills needed to work in the Free
Software world (Free Software Foundation, Trisquel, and others).
You can now become a donating member as well because you'll have a little
extra spending money!
What we would probably do is setup a "learning environment". It might just
start out with learning how to setup the infrastructure (can be done
remotely), setup Drupal, upgrade Drupal, installing modules, and various
pieces that go into running a web site. Then moving onto Ubercart (shopping
cart software), tweaking, coding, etc.
This isn't really a small job. While we could probably use a full time person
it isn't realistic financially (yet). It would probably be a while before one
had the skills needed to really move us forward too if you are just learning
PHP/Drupal/etc. It would probably be better for someone young and in school
with at least 20 hours a week free.
