We''re looking for a freelance rails developer to help us out with the development of mathpeople.statbib.org, a name disambiguation and connection service for mathematics and statistics (and eventually other fields, to be released under an open source license). The basic idea is to connect disparate identifiers which refer to the same person, so that websites can easily cross-reference one another. The current web site is a proof of concept and we''re looking for help making it rock solid and speedy, making it as easy as possible for data providers to add and update their records, and enabling site users to suggest (moderated) corrections. In particular, we''re looking for someone with: * experience developing web services/apis * experience with solr * knowledge of screen scraping and data cleaning * great all round rails knowledge and skills And obviously an interest in mathematics or statistics would be an advantage. One feature that we''d like you to develop is a way for users to easily collect photos of mathematicians from google images. For example, how can we connect http://mathpeople.statbib.org/people/275671 to the appropriate photos from http://images.google.com/images?&q=reverend+thomas+bayes? Initially, we''d be looking for 10-20 hours of your time, but if we work well together, the contract could continue for much longer and you would have the opportunity to take a leadership role in this and other projects. If you''re interested please email me, h.wickham+ror-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, with: * a couple of paragraphs describing your relevant experience * a link to your portofolio * a link to any public facing apis that you have developed, or a description/documentation of non-public ones * your going rate and availability Thanks, Hadley -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---