FYI -- Siebrand Mazeland
M: +31 6 50 69 1239 Skype: siebrand On 08-04-11 15:37 Daniel Kinzler <dan...@brightbyte.de> wrote: >Hi all! > >Wikimedia Deutschland is offering a contract for implementing the >GraphServ >component for our Graph Processor project. Anyone interested is invited to >apply, the official call for bids is at ><http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Ausschreibung/GraphServ>. > >The Graph Processor project aims to develop an infrastructure for rapidly >analyzing and evaluating Wikipedia's category structure. It's supposed to >become >part of the Toolserver infrastructure (and eventually, the WMF search >cluster) >that allows CatScan-like queries to run in under a second instead of >minutes. > >The contract offered here covers the implementation of the GraphServ >component, >which is to function as a service by which applications can access the >category >structures of different wikis, similar to the way a database server would >provide access to information stored in databases. Technically, GraphServ >is a >server that manages TCP connections and attaches them to instances of >GraphCore, >which do the actual processing of the category structures ><https://github.com/jkroll20/graphcore/blob/master/spec.rst>. The server >will be >accessed by applications via client libraries written in PHP, Python, >etc, which >are not in scope of the contract but will be developed in parallel by >Wikimedia >Deutschland. > >A rough specification of the GraphServ component along with requirements >for the >implementations can be found at ><http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Ausschreibung/GraphServ/Spec>. > >Note that GraphServ will be released as Open Source Software. While >Wikimedia >Deutschland will be the copyright holder for the software developed under >contract, we will include the name of the actual authors in the copyright >notice. > >Applications should include the following: > >* The applicant's prior experience with designing and implementing >client/server >software, as well as any other relevant qualifications >* An overview of the intended architecture of the implementation and the >technologies used, along with a rationale for choosing this architecture >and >technologies over others. >* A rough road map of the implementation, documentation and testing >phases, with >the appropriate mile stones. >* Estimate of working hours needed >* Time frame for the implementation (calendar weeks) >* Total expected cost, including taxes > >Please send your application to <tech...@wikimedia.de> by April 29. > > >Cheers, >Daniel > > >PS: please forward this to anyone you think could be interested. thanks! _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l