Tim O'Reilly and Andy Oram were kind enough to circulate this yesterday. I wanted to bring it to your attention so that you can, please, forward to any programmer-friends. A more technical job description is available. We're first and foremost looking for a really top-notch coder with passion for social justice and a talent with Ruby on Rails to add to our team. There's a core group of programmers already hard at work in San Francisco. Hence we prefer someone in the Bay Area. Please feel free to forward. Patent Reform Project Looking for RoR Help By Tim O'Reilly on January 24, 2007 We don't normally broadcast job postings, but Andy Oram writes about one that could be of interest to our audience: The Community Patent Review (a phase of the better-known Peer to Patent project) is seeking to hire a top-notch Ruby on Rails programmer. This is not an ordinary job posting; it?s a chance to get paid for public service. The project is developing software with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and is being closely watched in the UK too. It implements a process to let experts in multiple fields to submit prior art and other information related to patents. This project has the potential to alleviate some of the problems universally recognized with patents (particularly patents that should have rejected because of prior art) and can serve as a model for other projects that open up government to the public.... As a Rails programmer, job candidates are expected to handle basic JavaScript, CSS, and Ajax work as well. Residency in San Francisco is preferred....The creator and coordinator of the project is Beth Simone Noveck, a New York Law School professor. If you?re interested, please reach her at bnoveck (at domain) nyls.edu." http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/patent_reform_p.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/ patent_reform_project_hiring_a.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/p2patent-developer/attachments/20070125/b3c8c63e/attachment.htm
