[Fwd: Maricopa County Volunteer Request]

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 <derek@gnue.org>
Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>

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


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