Hi, I just wanted to ping to let you know that Hover Technologies is giving away ssh access to a 4-node cluster, where we're running a distributed crawler , a CDN , a time-machine among several other things.
If you have idea's as to how we can clock it to any additional use that will help us take over the world, we have a couple of empty sets of comfy chairs/tables, linux box's , wifi across our brand new "headquarters" that sports a guitar, a bean bag , a sofa to crash , and a few of us for company. Among the 3 developers ourselves - we've pretty much covered linux administration & networking, erlang & python , css & graphics , javascript & HTML , plugin development, testing et cetera . So dont mind us ... you can just chug along doing what you love to do . My guess would possibly be contributing back to the community, working on crawlers & processing large amounts of data, hack on the backend or HTML/UI+javascript . We'll even chip in a check at the end of the month as well. About Hover Technologies / hover.in -------------------------------------------------- A little about the company and product [1]. Sometime in 2007, I teamed up with Arun Prabhudesai a US-return IT/marketing 10+ exp dude, to co-found the startup and lead as CEO and chief-blogger [2], while I handle the technology aspects. Prior to this, I was with Bangalore-based startup - Tutorvista in the education space [3] Hover Technologies was officially incorporated in 2008, and the journey has been fascinating so far. We were covered by Yahoo Developer Network [4] for our involvement in the community. Hover.in was also one of the 5 internet startups that was nominated at Proto.in [5] in Jan 2008 (the Indian startup showcase event) of our web-based product that targets big web publishers and bloggers. The product as such involves the in-text content delivery, drawing on considerable amounts of work in data retrieval, natural language processing, and distributed computing paradigms, apart from innovative takes on client-side usability challenges . Among our first few developers include a google soc [6] intern , as well as another Haskell / functional programming hacker . We just got ourselves a nice plush 3000 sq. ft office [7], so the ideal candidate must be living in Pune as well, unless you're ok to relocate. I doubt anyone will be joining us for the salary we're offering for the first 4-5 months - but with stock opts , deferred bonus's and salary hikes, it's going to be exciting times at hover.in as it grows [8]. Share this mail to spread the word, Ping me back if you're interested , or please do us a favour and forward this to someone you think can hack with us. ( btw, Arun's also looking for a marketing & sales position in our Mumbai office as well ) ~ Keep Clicking, Bhasker V Kode hover.in | http://bhaskervk.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] http://hover.in [2] http://trak.in [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TutorVista [4] http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/01/first-ever_pipescamp_unconference.html [5] http://proto.in/proto2008/files/FinalBooklet.pdf [6] http://code.google.com/soc/ [7] ~ NIB-M Rd , Kondwa, Pune [8] http://www.goergo.in/?p=1904 Forward -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
