I have gotten a few requests and I think I chose poor wording. We are not asking for volunteers to work M-F from 8am to 6pm. I was merely trying to indicate that those were the days and times that one could come into volunteer. Anyone able to give at least one 4 hour chunk in a week would be of great help to us. This is mostly because any time chunks smaller than that require more work showing how to do the work than returned in the volunteers time. -Derek Alan Dayley said: > There were a few at the Devel meeting last night that said they did not > see or had lost this email from Derek. It is an important effort so I > see no harm in re-posting it to the group. Please consider > participating. > > Alan > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Maricopa County Volunteer Request > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:54:11 -0700 (MST) > From: Derek Neighbors > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To: > > All, > > Maricopa County has decided to replace it's current budget and planning > system Cognos[0] with something written internal. The new system will > be written using Free Software(Python/GNU Enterprise) using Free > Software infrastructure (Postgresql/GNU/Linux). The desire is to > release the end product under a Free Software license and offer to > additional municipalities as a solution for budget and planning that > currently is not being adequately met by propietary software vendors. > > I know that many people are interested in governments adopting Free > Software. Now is your chance to help make that a reality. We need to > be able to run systems in parallel, however because of limited resources > it is will be difficult to keep the existing system moving forward > while architecting a new system. We could use some help advancing the > models of the old system so we can focus efforts on the development of > a new system. We are looking for volunteers (as we have no real > budget) that maybe interested in such work. > > Cognos is a leading private sector planning tool, by volunteering you > will get experience using Cognos on a deep enough level that you could > use that education for entrance into the work force. You will also get > an understanding of government financial structures and operations such > as fund accounting and governmental planning. > > The work will largely be grunt work in cloning existing models, but will > be valuable experience. Currently because of data security concerns we > can not offer remote volunteers. The work will have to be perfomed > downtown at 4th Avenue and Jefferson. Monday - Friday between 7am - > 6pm. > > If you have questions or are interested please email > dneighbo@mail.maricopa.gov > > -Derek Neighbors > > [0] http://www.cognos.com/products/epp/analyst.html > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss