PLUG - Phoenix Linux User Group

Open Source Web Developer

We’re Mindspace. We’re growing. And we’re expanding our web development department in our cool office space in Tempe.

We’re looking for someone who has been doing Web development using Open Source technologies for several years, and who has the wherewithal to create custom content management systems, or apply their experience with existing CMS’s, boxed or custom, and modify them for optimal use.
The right person enjoys and excels at tackling business challenges and coming up with new and creative online tools and websites that exceed the expected solutions. The selected candidate will enjoy both building and having input into the final deliverable.

Other must haves: Fluent in JavaScript, PHP, CSS, HTML. Superior knowledge of browser differences. The ability to communicate technical challenges in a way that they relate to business. A relentless pursuit of perfection, and the ability to achieve it quickly. A whacky sense of humor, or a tolerance for those who do.
 
Pluses: Front end, flash, mobile device coding, Web 2.0 experience, social media experience beyond being a user.
 
Please email your resume (including salary requirements) and examples of your recent coding accomplishments. Resumes received without examples will not be considered, nor will consultants. Contact HR@mindspace.net

About Mindspace:

NOTE: This event replaces the November and December dates which fall in holiday weeks.

Saturday December 5, 2009
Start: 10:00
End: 16:00

Where: University of Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ 85283
(Baseline Road, just west of I-10 and Pointe Hilton South Mountain, south side of Baseline near Fry's Electronics in Tempe).

The monthly Installfest is co-sponsored by PLUG and the AZloco.

RSVP: InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us
- Your computer with specs and equipment,
including monitor, keyboard, mouse, and network card.
- What you hope to accomplish and learn by installing Linux
- Encouraged to RSVP but not required

Who: Anyone who wants to see Linux or run it on their computer.
- Volunteers always needed, please e-mail your pledge for time.

Installations can sometimes take over two hours, please arrive within the first few hours.

We will also help with installing Free Software applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP, Blender and Inkscape on other operating systems.

Presentations This Month

TBD

Topics: Various topics ranging form beginner's to advanced, user to administrator.
When: Fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: DeVry, 2149 W. Dunlap Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85021

Mesa Community College has several 8 week classes starting up mid-semester.

der.hans has GNU/Linux System Administration starting on the 19th.

Dennis has Introduction to GNU/Linux starting on the 20th.

Phil has Introduction To Javascripting starting on the 19th, Internet/Web Development Level II starting on the 20th and Web Scripting With PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP and MySQL) starting on the 21st.

Lots more classes coming in the spring including GNU/Linux system administration, GNU/Linux internet server, GNU/Linux security and C programming.

Get more information Free Software Classes in Arizona.

Once a month the BlenderCAD Development Team holds an international online meeting so that we can talk to each other in real time about the project. We are currently gaining a new member about every 2 or 3 weeks. For those of you who are not familiar with our project, here is the just of it...

BlenderCAD is a fork of Blender and later to become an official part of the Blender project. Our primary goal is to create a great, full featured, cad environment. A program that can be used for drafting, designing, engineering, architecture, and even CNC work. Our secondary goal is to make Blender more clean, so that it will be a better tool for artists.

Please feel free to come and join in the meeting. It is an enjoyable way to contribute to the open source community. If you are interested the online meeting is on irc.freenode.net, channel #cad, and port 6667. The third Saturday of every month. Also, we now have full access to the old BlenderCAD website and are in the process of updating it: http://projects.blender.org/projects/blendercad/

There will be ABLEconf t-shirts available this year. Thanks to RD Harris, CPA, P.C. for sponsoring the gear.

There will be both traditional unisex t-shirts and women's cut t-shirts. It is a limited run, especially for the more expensive women's cut. Both are being sold at the same price.

Pre-orders are available on an honor system. Shirts pre-ordered on or before Monday, October 12th will be available for $15. After Monday the 12th t-shirts will be $20.

The t-shirts will be red/maroon with the ABLEconf logo on the front.

To pre-order ABLEconf t-shirts, please email pre-order@ABLEconf.com with the order details.

Please specify quantity, cut and sizes in the pre-order request.

No money will be accepted until the t-shirts are picked up. The pre-order is to help ABLEconf get an idea as to how many t-shirts need to be made.

Cut: Unisex or Women's
Size: S M L XL XXL
Quantity:

The order will probably only have M, L, and XL other than to fill pre-orders. S and XXL might not be practical. If you need a size outside that, let ABLEconf know in order to see if it can be available. Yes, you can order multiple sizes and cuts :).

East Side Meeting

Presentations This Month

• Ubuntu & Parental Controls
  
• ABLEconf preparations

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM

Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

Topic: Ubuntu & Parental Controls

Presenter: Jason Holtzapple

Abstract: This presentation will cover web filtering with Squid and DansGuardian, proxy auto-detection, router access control, computer time limits and access control for applications.

Bio: Jason Holtzapple is a system administrator with 14 years of experience living in Phoenix, Arizona. His current employer is Copart, an online vehicle auction company.

Tonight's meeting at UAT is canceled as I'm not going to be able to make it to present the "Fixed" presentation on Trac.

We are looking for presenters for December and 2010, If you have a topic you would like to present please contact me directly or post to the PLUGdevel list.

We have a presentation by Scott in line for the November meeting for those curious about Valgrind and c++. Additional info will be posted as we clear October.

Ed

Presentations This Month

September Meeting CANCELLED

Our venue is unavailable and arrangements for a new venue have not yet been arranged.

Watch for info on the October meeting, which will be the Wednesday after ABLEconf.

Topics: Various topics ranging form beginner's to advanced, user to administrator.
When: Fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Arizona Conservatory for Arts and Academics, 2820 West Kelton Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85053
Google: http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=conserva...
The meeting is in the building with the red-ish roof to the north-west of the marker.

Start: 2009 Sep 26 - 10:00
End: 2009 Sep 26 - 16:00
Timezone: MST (Etc/GMT-7)

Where: University of Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ 85283
(south side of Baseline Road, just west of I-10 and a couple of block west of Fry's Electronics in Tempe).

The monthly Installfest is co-sponsored by PLUG and the AZloco.

RSVP: InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us
- Your computer with specs and equipment,
including monitor, keyboard, mouse, and network card.
- What you hope to accomplish and learn by installing Linux
- Encouraged to RSVP but not required

Who: Anyone who wants to see Linux or run it on their computer.
- Volunteers always needed, please e-mail your pledge for time.

Installations can take 30 minutes to over two hours, so please arrive within the first few hours.

We will also help with installing Free Software applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP, Blender and Inkscape on other operating systems.