Forwind info wrote: > Hi all, > > A new position has come up at Canonical (ubuntu) for a sound software > engineer. > Details are below. You can apply online from here > http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/canonical_UDSE/ > > > > Job Title: Ubuntu Desktop Sound Engineer > Posting Date & id: February 2010 UDSE > Job Location: Your home, given appropriate facilities including > broadband Internet > Reports to: Ubuntu Desktop Team Manager > Job Summary: We are seeking a Desktop Integration Engineer to play a > key development and integration role on > the Ubuntu Desktop Team one of the technical teams that makes up the > Ubuntu Platform Team. As part of the > core Ubuntu team, the Engineer will work on a broad range of technical > tasks: including feature planning, > packaging, integration,bugfixing and maintenance. The successful > candidate will ensure a first class user > experience by packaging, bug fixing and development of Pulseaudio and > related sound technology and > applications. Strong communication and relationship skills are as > important as superb technical skills in this role, > as the successful candidate will be responsible for process > communication and coordination between Ubuntu and > external partners, as well as ensuring commonality of purpose and > technical approach. This job involves > international travel several times a year, usually for one week. > Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities: > Take on primary maintenance of some components of the Ubuntu > Desktop, covering sound related areas. > • > Engage in bugfixing work across a wide variety of components > of the Ubuntu platform. > • > Assist in prerelease testing of Ubuntu, taking > personal ownership of problems and driving them to > • > solutions. > Collaborate with other teams in the Ubuntu community and with > upstream developers where appropriate, > • > to make sure that Ubuntu includes the very best in free > software and that our goals are taken into account > by other projects. > Work directly with OEMs or in conjunction with the Canonical > OEM team to address customer needs on > • > aggressive time lines. > When necessary, respond to and work to resolve issues raised > by end users and commercial support > • > > customers. > > > Required skills and experience: > Familiarity with open source development tools and > methodology, especially those in common use for > • > Ubuntu and Debian package maintenance. > Strong understanding of the makeup of a modern GNU/Linux > distribution. > • > Strong interests and experience with a variety of the > software that makes up the core of Ubuntu. > • > Strong interests and experience with Pulseaudio, Alsa, and > other sound related technology and
Why not removing Pulseaudio like 64 Studio does? > • > applications on Linux. > Capacity to learn quickly about new systems and techniques. > • > Handson experience with concepts of agile development and > lean software engineering. > • > Deep understanding of, and extensive use of, desktop > operating systems; especially the GNOME and > • > KDE platforms. > Excellent English communications skills. > • > Excellent online communications skills, including IRC, email, > and other online venues. > • > Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team > through selfdiscipline and selfmotivation, > • > delivering according to a schedule. > Ability to collaborate in real time with team members in Eastern US > and European time zones. > • Assumed the philosophy of FLOSS isn't competition, but community: What's about a joint venture with an existing multimedia distro based on Ubuntu, e.g. 64 Studio or openArtist or ...? Perhaps you like to contact http://www.64studio.com/team. Dunno, if they are interested, but as an onlooker this seems to make sense, while there will be a new multimedia distro each month and all of them needs maintainers. *?* Ralf -- Bert from Sesame Street in Taxi Driver scene "You Talkin' Me?": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IXmHqPWxUw&feature=related _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
