[LUAU] Great UH Opportunity with FOSS and MIS Underpinnings.1

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Fri Mar 7 12:32:02 PST 2008


Quoting the job description:
	Minimum qualifications: Possession of a baccalaureate educational  
degree.

sorta knocks that "free tuition for classes at UH" part in the dirt.

On Mar 6, 2008, at 2:16 PM, R. Scott Belford wrote:

> (Sorry, perhaps this is wrapped better.  I really struggle  
> formatting email from thunderbird/icedove)
>
> Aloha
>
> A very nice email has come our way respectfully requesting that this
> community know more about a good job opportunity at UH.  It seems that
> LUAU is the appropriate list for this.  Apparently the job description
> does not do the fun of the job any justice, so the following is a
> verbatim statement from this future employees' supervisor:
>
>> The job description is long
>> (http://workatuh.hawaii.edu/zoom_job.php?9167) but it really boils
>> down to working with systems that have web front ends, MySQL or
>> similar base, and some combination of mostly open source application
>> programs in between. Advantages that might outweigh the not-so-great
>> salary are the free tuition for classes at UH and of course the
>> generous holiday, vacation and sick leave. Also my department allows
>> flex scheduling, some work from home, doesn't make anyone work swing
>> shifts. The job has the potential to be very diverse and could give
>> someone a range of practical experience. How to reach the new grads,
>> or those with aptitude with a certain level of geekiness, who might
>> be thinking about going back to grad school?  Specifically we are
>> currently using Plone/Zope, dSpace (from MIT), Streetprint (a
>> canadian digital collection management system) and Geoserver, the
>> servers are almost all Linux of some flavor, we use Apache Tomcat.
>> The job can have a lot of variety and even be "fun" but there's no
>> way to convey that to the right people within the structure of the
>> official job description.  If you could spread the word, that would
>> be great.  The deadline for applications is March 20.
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