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Posted: May 2, 2008
Job title: Entry Level web application developer
Company name: Community Software Lab
Location: United States, MA, Lowell
Pay rate: $10,000 per year
Travel: 0%
Terms of employment: Salaried employee
Length of employment: 1 year, longer at your option
Hours: Full time
Onsite: yes
Description:
We (http://thecsl.org) write software to make the
world a better place and we do it with very little
resources.
Our principle project is a directory of social services and is the best
site of it's kind in the world. (really)
http://mvhub.com
"Best" is a relative term, for comparison see:
http://www.bostonresourcenet.org/new.cfm
We're looking for somebody to make improvements using Perl and SQL.
Knowing Perl now is not a firm requirement, but it sure would be nice.
We're willing to teach the right person.
Libraries we are using now include
HTML::Template
Test::More
CGI::Application
Lingua::Stem::En
To apply follow the procedures at:
http://thecsl.org/go/vista/
Please feel free to drop me ( Dan@thecsl.org ) an email with questions
or comments.
DISCLAIMERS
US Citizenship or a green card are required.
This is an Americorps/VISTA position. The
goal is to eliminate poverty. An important
method is sacrifice.
Other people in the program work at homeless
shelters or teach literacy.
We write software.
You get paid $10,000 per year with basic
health coverage for full time work.
Our goal is to make this a permanent position
at close to market rate. We've had this goal
for several years. This year we've gotten closer
than before, but this is still a goal not a promise.
Required skills: Basic Software development
Desired skills:
Perl
HTML::Template
Test::More
CGI::Application
Lingua::Stem::En
URL for more information: http://thecsl.org/go/vista/
Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/8586#contact