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G’day, If you have some extra time on your hands and would like to
volunteer to work with the award-winning Irish designer, Matt Hutchinson
(creator of www.ijug.org), as part of an
effort to develop a really neat Java-powered web site for Noumenaut
Software’s Open Source Skribe blogging system under development,
I’d like to invite you to join our web team. Noumenaut Software isn’t a legal entity, but a
collaboration among Java enthusiasts who have come together to create useful
software for anyone who might like to use it. Skribe is our first product,
presently in the early stages of design. It is one among several future
products that we hope will allow people to better communicate, organize, and
collaborate together. Imagine a really souped-up
Microsoft NetMeeting or Groove Networks’ Groove, but web-based, and
you’ll have a pretty good idea of what we’ve got it mind. We
envision a portal providing far broader functionality, and building true
communities, than what those products can do, with the addition of other
functions, such as blogging. Our aim in building each of them is to create
world-class products in their own right. Our early strategy is two-fold. First, we need to create a
compelling web site, both to disseminate information easily and to allow team
members to communicate effectively (our intranet). We also want to create a
public portal (extranet), an entry point into the Skribe system. Second, over
the course of several quarterly releases, we hope to make Skribe one of the
best blogging systems anywhere, with robust provisions for security (an
individual reader sees only that which he has access to see, at the sentence
(or image, sound, etc.) level, rich content (not only text or pictures
awkwardly tacked on as afterthoughts to text), and easy importation and
exportation of all user data in many different formats that he can select from.
Now that I’ve told you a bit about Noumenaut Software
and Skribe, I’d like to ask for your help. Whether you’re an
accomplished JSP/Servlet/web developer or just starting out with those
technologies and would like to learn, we invite you to join us. Matt is our
webmaster, and work on our web site is now in the organizational stage and will
begin implementation in approximately one week (around Specifically, we are looking for Java-based web developers
to work on defining our Internet Architecture requirements and diagram, working
on implementing the requirements as JSP/Servlets/Beans, and interfacing to some
PHP legacy systems and external systems as needed. We also seek content
creators and gifted graphic artists to assist in the effort. What we’re aiming for is ambitious and will take a lot
of hard work, but we’ve put in place several systems, such as the project
management tool, PHPCollab, in place that will make the process easier. If
you’ve got a passion for Java and love to break new ground, learn new
technologies, and most importantly, make new friends and have fun, we invite
you to explore Noumenaut Software, the Skribe effort, and particularly, to join
our web team. We’re proud of the work that we’re doing and we also
believe that this is a great way of enhancing your skills and resume, alike.
There’s nothing better than being able to sit a prospective future
employer down, showing that employer something you’ve done, and wowing
him. :) With your help, we can achieve a lot together! Perhaps you’re more interested in blogging than our
web efforts. In either case, if you can commit one hour a day for any five days
of the week, want to learn a lot, make new friends, and have fun, we’ve
put together some web pages that will help you see what we’re all about.
If you like what you see, please join our mailing lists (see www.noumenaut.com) and let’s roll! Related to Skribe ============= Roadmap to the Release of Skribe 1.0: http://www.noumenaut.com/Extranet/info/roadmap.html Getting Started: http://www.noumenaut.com/Extranet/info/gettingstarted.html A History of Skribe: http://www.noumenaut.com/skribe-history.html Related to Matt’s Web Architecture at IJUG, a
precursor to our pending design at Noumenaut ==================================================================== http://www.noumenaut.com/Intranet/web/ijug_ia_diagram1.pdf http://www.noumenaut.com/Intranet/web/ijug_struct1.pdf Joining Noumenaut Software ===================== Please take special note of: http://www.noumenaut.com/Extranet/info/roadmap.html#Joining If you have any questions, feel free to contact me anytime. Thanks, and Best Wishes, Steve Jovanovic Director of Engineering Noumenaut Software |