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Begin forwarded message: >> From: Tikkun/Network of Spiritual Progressives >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:40 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Webmaster and Web Designers needed for Network of Spiritual >> Progressives/Tikkun >> >> >> >> We are seeking either one or several people to help us with our web >> site www.tikkun.org and www.spiritualprogressives.org and we are >> hoping to find them first within our own community. >> >> We are hoping to find someone who has outstanding skills and who >> might agree to work at a discount price because she or he is deeply >> committed to building an alternative to the current direction in >> American society and is willing to donate some part of what would be >> a "market wage" for their skills to help us make this happen. >> >> I. Job Description: Webmaster >> >> >> Webmaster Job Description for Tikkun Magazine, Tikkun Community and >> the Network of Spiritual Progressives: >> >> Skills: >> >> XHTML, JavaScript, CSS >> Plone Content Management System >> Zope Application Server >> Python >> Apache >> Basic Unix Systems Administration >> >> Description of Job Applicant: >> >> An individual with 2+ years of web application development >> experience. The candidate should have expertise in W3C standard >> XHTML, JavaScript and CSS, be familiar with modern content management >> systems, particularly Plone, be familiar with the Zope Application >> Server, know Object Oriented programming (Python preferred), be >> familiar with Apache web server and have basic Unix systems >> administration skills. Additional, preferred skills are skinning and >> custom navigation; the ability to develop and customize the Plone / >> Zope configuration; product deployment and modification (custom >> member profiles, integration with external data providers); the >> ability to manage technical aspects of online communities; bonus >> skills would include Flash, Photoshop, XML. We are looking for >> someone with good communication skills and a team player. NOTE: >> CANDIDATE MUST BE SF/BAY AREA LOCAL. >> >> Description of the Job: >> >> Manage a single Plone / Zope Server running two web sites for a >> national magazine/non-profit organization (30K+ unique monthly >> visits). >> Manage a set >> of existing business applications and create new custom web >> applications to address day-to-day operations, membership, >> information management and other needs. Maintain an on-line archive >> of over 2,500 magazine articles. Manage the POP mailboxes of 10+ >> staff members.. Interface between the staff and hosting company for >> various support issues. Approximately 30 hours per month (may vary >> depending on projects) at 35$ per hour. >> >> >> >> Immediate Project Responsibilities: July and August >> >> A. Love Embodied Website Construction: >> >> Create the infrastructure for a new community publishing and >> communications space for the Network of Spiritual Progressives, Love >> Embodied, using the present site (spiritualprogressives.org) design >> template and content management system. This site will include the >> following components: >> >> 1. Articles: Published by the NSP on a regular basis 2. Reviews: >> Published by the NSP on a regular basis 3. Blogs: For Rabbi Lerner >> and Nichola Torbet to communicate with the NSP 4. Blogs: For NSP >> community leaders to post activity reports from their distinct >> communities, under the editorial guidelines and supervision of Rabbi >> Lerner & Nichola Torbett. >> 5. News Aggregator: Titled the Current Thinking on Tikkun.org, a >> posting space for articles gathered from around the web of interest >> to the Network of Spiritual Progressives 6. Audio and Video: Posting >> space for audio and video podcasts and You Tube formatted video 7. >> Donation selector: For the NSP 8. Action Alerts for the NSP >> >> The Love Embodied page will require a new domain to be created for >> itself, and must be integrated with the content of the new Love >> Embodied email list serv of the NSP, which is in the process of being >> designed. All content in the Love Embodied email list serve will link >> back to updates and content on the Love Embodied page. >> >> B. Upgrades to existing Websites: >> >> Spiritual Progressives.org: >> >> 1. Current Thinking: Titled "Current Thinking" on >> spiritualprogressives.org, this news aggregator is currently linked >> to the present Current Thinking on Tikkun.org. It must be recreated >> as an independent news article posting site wherein content of unique >> interest to the Network of Spiritual Progressives be posted, separate >> from that posted to Tikkun.org >> >> 2.. Blogs: A unique NSP blog, to be authored by Rabbi Lerner and.or >> Nichola Torbett, must be installed within the site to provide NSP >> news updates. >> >> 3. Revision work to existing content: Major revision work to the text >> and design of the main part of the page must be done to update it. >> >> >> >> 4. We need to be able to do email blasts that are responded to on our >> website with instantaneous counts of which of various position is >> getting what amount of support. And the functionality to be able to >> list the names of people who sign a petition or a statement in favor >> of some particular cause or issue. >> >> >> >> Tikkun.org: >> >> 1. Blogs: Currently Tikkun.org has four bloggers who use a blogging >> system that came with the Plone website package. We must replace this >> blogging software with a better system for blogging, featuring >> superior text editing, graphics uploading and audo/video uploading >> for current bloggers. >> Preferred >> blogging software integration: Typepad. >> >> 2. Revisions to Front Page Content: Replacement of photographs with >> newer graphic and text content. Minimal work. >> >> II. Web Designer >> We want someone who can make our web as attractive, sharp, >> accessible, user-friendly, and compelling as any in the world, yet >> with an appearance that conveys the seriousness of our task and the >> interfaith spiritual nature of our commitment while maintaining a >> visual appearance that will not put off the many "spiritual but not >> religious" people who are part of our constituency and who do not >> want to be assaulted either by an excess of overt religious symbolism >> nor by a New Agey flavor that would suggest a lack of intellectual >> seriousness and sophistication. >> >> TO APPLY: >> Write us a detailed self-revealing letter about you and your skills, >> direct us to sites you've designed and tell us exactly what skills >> you personally brought to those projects, and tell us how much you >> normally charge for your work and what kind of a price break you >> would give us for this work. >> Send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> <http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/TrackImage?key=144621058> _______________________________________________ NGO mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo
