Hi, Am 10.06.2013 18:15, schrieb Florian Effenberger: > Dear community, > > in its last private meeting, the board of directors has made a > decision I would like to share with you today. > > We decided to offer Christian Lohmaier a work contract, for a limited > period of one year, part-time with 20 hours per week, specifically for > web development. This involves developing, enhancing and bug fixing > our web applications, like our CMS system, and like the new download > page. > > Given TDF runs more and more applications that are critical, and has > very special requirements e.g. in terms of localization and > scaleability, which are not always met by the upstream products we > run, several community members have proposed paying someone with > development skills - especially in PHP, Python, Perl, C, C++, Java - > to implement those requests. > > After careful research, the board has come to the decision that hiring > Christian Lohmaier on a part-time, time-limited basis specifically for > these development tasks is the most economical solution, and will > provide huge benefits to the wider community. Code produced will, > wherever possible, be also filed upstream, to the benefit of the open > source products we use. > > Christian has been around for many years, contributing a lot > especially to our web applications, and the board is looking forward > to have a fixed amount of his time in the future. > > The total costs for TDF, including dues employer, translate to > approximately 25.000 € per year. > > After the contract has been drafted now and sent to the board in > private, I hereby ask the board to > > 1. vote on hiring Christian Lohmaier, for a limited period of one > year, part-time with 20 hours per week, specifically for web > development, at costs not exceeding 25.000 € per year, > > 2. authorize Thorsten Behrens and me to sign the work contract on > behalf of TDF > > Looking forward to working with Christian! > +1 from my side. I'm looking forward to some Python website hacking ;-)
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