[puduvailug] dev for an open source project

  • From: Balu <balu.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: puduvailug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:42:35 +0530

Hi,
French Institute of Pondicherry, where I am working, is looking to hire 2 developers for one of its project. It is an open source project on biodiversity informatics. below is the profile description. If you guys know of anyone good, who will willing to stay back in Pondy for the next 3 years, with dynamism and commitment to open source, please do ask them to write to balu.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx with their CVs and with reference to puduvailug list.

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Software Developers Profile - Biodiversity Informatics @ IFP

General Information
French Institute of Pondicherry www.ifpindia.org is looking to hire software developers to strengthen its biodiversity informatics team. Current projects in the biodiversity informatics program includes The Western Ghats Portal http://thewesternghats.in/ and the India Biodiversity Portal (IBP) http://indiabiodiversity.org/ on one hand and the recently launched Weed Identification and Knowledge in the Western Indian Ocean project http://wikwio.org and http://portal.wikwio.org. These portals aim to build comprehensive information systems for documenting the biodiversity of the Western Ghats and the Indian subcontinent and the weeds species of Western Indian Ocean region.

The portal’s technology is completely open source and the code base in available on github.com. The portals are in active development with new features and functionality. The portal has a map module, a species module, and a social network and observation module.

We are looking for 2 member team for 32 months to work on web technologies to build a world class biodiversity informatics platform that will provide global leadership in technology and help in effective conservation of biodiversity. We are looking for people with the following skill sets:

- Basic exposure in web development
- Java, PHP, JSP, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, CSS, SQL for database interaction
- Knowledge of web development in Grails/Drupal will be additional advantage
- iOS/Android development experience (optional)

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