Author: phobos Date: 2012-08-03 00:47:08 +0000 (Fri, 03 Aug 2012) New Revision: 25741 Added: website/trunk/about/en/jobs-projectcoordinator.wml Log: first draft of the project coordinator position we'll announce in a month or so. Added: website/trunk/about/en/jobs-projectcoordinator.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/about/en/jobs-projectcoordinator.wml (rev 0) +++ website/trunk/about/en/jobs-projectcoordinator.wml 2012-08-03 00:47:08 UTC (rev 25741) @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +## translation metadata +# Revision: $Revision: 25666 $ +# Translation-Priority: 3-low + +#include "head.wmi" TITLE="Tor Project: Jobs (browser hacker)" CHARSET="UTF-8" +<div id="content" class="clearfix"> + <div id="breadcrumbs"> + <a href="<page index>">Home » </a> + <a href="<page about/overview>">About » </a> + <a href="<page about/jobs>">Jobs</a> + </div> + <div id="maincol"> +<h1>The Tor Project is looking for a Project Coordinator!</h1> + +<p> +A project coordinator is the person who coordinates and helps track +deliverables, progress, and provide metrics on past and current +performance of projects. +</p> + +<p>Your impact will involve:</p> + +<ul> +<li>Deriving deliverables, deadlines, and milestones for each active +contract.</li> +<li>Developing timelines and schedules for completion of milestones and + deliverables for each active, and occassionally proposed, contract.<li> +<li>Collecting ideas and potential deliverables for the future.</li> +<li>Raising concerns, timeline slips, and probability of missed deadlines +to management.</li> +<li>Helping with managing people's schedules, work load, and keep various +people or teams in communication with one another.</li> +<li>Tracking deliverable completion.</li> +<li>Developing and maintaining metrics about project completion rate +and other measures as based on <a +href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html">evidence-based +project management</a>.</li> +<li>Helping contractors develop their contract deliverables for six month +periods based on expected workload.</li> +<li>Maintaining project status pages on trac (or whatever system we have) +with deliverables, tickets, and monthly summaries of progress.</li> +<li>Helping to write the monthly progress reports required for contracts.</li> +</ul> + +<p>In general, you should be:</p> +<ul> +<li>Be comfortable and experienced justifying and documenting technical +decisions for a public, world-wide technical audience.</li> +<li>Be comfortable working remotely.</li> +<li>Be comfortable and experienced with interacting with users and other +developers online.</li> +<li>Be comfortable with transparency: as a non-profit, everything we do is in +public, including your name (or at least your business name) and pay +rate.</li> +</ul> + +<p>An ideal candidate would also:</p> + +<ul> +<li>Have experience with open-source software development, including +working with distributed teams across different time-zones containing +employees and volunteers of differing skill levels over multiple mediums, +including email, instant messaging, and IRC.</li> +<li>Have basic familiarity with distributed version control systems.</li> +</ul> + +<p>Other notes:</p> + +<ul> +<li>Tor has an office in Walpole, MA. However, you can work from +wherever you want, in basically any country. You'll need to be +comfortable in this environment! We coordinate via IRC, Instant +Messaging, email, phone and video chats, and bug trackers.</li> +<li>Academic degrees are great, but not required if you have +the right experience.</li> +<li>We only write free and open source software, and we don't +believe in software patents.</li> +</ul> + +<p> +How to apply: +</p> + +<ul> + <li>Link to a sample of projects you've coordinated in the past that + you're allowed to show us.</li> + <li>Provide a CV explaining your background, experience, skills, + and other relevant qualifications.</li> + <li>List some people who can tell us more about you: these + references could be employers or coworkers, open source projects, + etc.</li> + <li>Email the above to jobs@torproject.org, specifying the + "Project Coordinator" position.</li> +</ul> + +<p> +About the company:<br> + The Tor Project is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to research, + development, and education about online anonymity and privacy. The Tor + network's 3000 volunteer relays carry 14 Gbps for upwards of half a + million daily users, including ordinary citizens who want protection + from identity theft and prying corporations, corporations who want + to look at a competitor's website in private, people around the world + whose Internet connections are censored, and even governments and law + enforcement. Tor has a staff of 15 paid developers, researchers, and + advocates, plus many dozen volunteers who help out on a daily basis. Tor + is funded in part by government research and development grants, and + in part by individual and corporate donations. +</p> + + </div> + <!-- END MAINCOL --> + <div id = "sidecol"> +#include "side.wmi" +#include "info.wmi" + </div> + <!-- END SIDECOL --> +</div> +<!-- END CONTENT --> +#include <foot.wmi> + Property changes on: website/trunk/about/en/jobs-projectcoordinator.wml ___________________________________________________________________ Added: svn:mime-type + text/vnd.wap.wml