Opportunities

Web-Designer / Developer for Glimpse Multimedia nad Testament Pictures

Hello,
Glimpse Multimedia and Testament Pictures is producing a new comedic web series called “The Organization.” We already have a website up for the casting www.watchtheorganization.com but are looking to explore more options and capabilities with online video. It is a fast approaching medium and there is still so much of it untouched. We are looking for someone to collaborate with and someone looking for a professional product to add to their resume. We have a talented cast and crew and the pilot episode is already in post production along with the second episode in production now.

Our Mission: To keep a consistent shooting schedule while entertaining and exploring filmmaking and online entertainment. To promote networking and bonding with other outstanding talent in Colorado and to help give opportunities to those with less experience. To have a wild and crazy time while producing a professional piece of art and comedic entertainment. In accordance, with our mission, we are looking for a website partner. This is a non-paying, non-union project. We want to provide a place for filmmakers and artists to network and promote each other in a non-crab bucket driven atmosphere. Resume credit and reel is offered. There is a high potential for marketing and advertising revenue, but that acts only as a mere goal to produce more. We love what we do and we want to do it steadily, focused, aggressively and constantly to grow from amateur to pros, helping and receiving guidance along the way. Therefore, let’s rock this and jump out an airplane screaming at the top of our lungs!

Sincerely,
Cougar Littlefield
Co-Producer
Testament Pictures
(contact us at production@watchtheorganization.com)

Student Group»

My name is Ben Meynell and I am in the midst of forming a student group called the "Open Source Group @ CU". The group's aim is to contribute to existing open source software projects as well as to create and administer our own projects. Frankly, I'm tired of seeing too many great solutions coming from students at Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and the like. I want to see CU to make a name for itself in this space.

As a student group, our office will be located in the UMC and the university will pay for our computers, chairs, desks, books, travel expenses, etc. It's a pretty sweet deal.

We want talented individuals passionate about developing quality open source software. Since our work will be published to a global audience, it's a good way to gain personal experience as well as a way garner a reputation for yourself in the "real world", once you leave school.

For starters, we will be writing plugins for the Symfony Project (a PHP-based website framework used by Yahoo! and others). We will also work with, and contribute to, the backend technologies developed by Danga Interactive: MogileFS (perl - distributed filesystem), Perlbal (perl - load balancer, webserver and reverse proxy), and Memached (c - stores files in RAM for fast retrieval instead of on disk). All these software products were developed by students and young people and now run behind the scenes on the web's most popular websites.

The scope of our work, however, will not be limited to the projects just listed. More generally, our focus will be on developing pragmatic technologies for websites that require high availability, scalability, speed, and quality code.

We will primarily make use of the following technologies: Linux, MySQL, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, C, Java, Squid, CSS, XHTML, Flash, JavaScript, Subversion, Vim, etc. So, aptly, we're looking for individuals possessing those skills. And as already mentioned, the university will provide all the hardware, office space, etc. All you need to bring is your passion, talent, intelligence, creativity, and a desire to make changes and have a ton of fun.

Our in-office development methodology will be based on Extreme Programming practices. This means iterative development, writing short stories in English describing new features, writing test code before real code, not repeating any code, writing object oriented and modular code, refactoring, good documentation, code review sessions, etc.

As a student group, membership is voluntary and nobody will be compensated. However, if there turns out to be consulting demands on campus or beyond then we may be able to charge for our services. I'm also confident that we will come up with business ideas on our own that we could pursue outside of the group that could prove quite lucrative.

Stay tuned. There is no formal application at this time. If interested, PLEASE email Ben Meynell at bmeynell@colorado.edu.