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Get Paid to Work on Rails
Last year, as you may recall, Rails got thread safety and a new core committer thanks to our participation in the Google Summer of Code program under the auspices of Ruby Central. This year, we’re pleased to announce, Ruby on Rails has been accepted into Google Summer of Code as a sponsoring organization in its own right.
What does this mean to you? Potentially, if you’re the right person, you can get paid to work on the Rails core code this summer!
The “right person” in this case is one who is at least 18 years old (sorry, Google’s rule, not ours!), a full- or part-time college student, and passionate about improving Rails. We’re building a potential list of project ideas on the Rails wiki, but we welcome other interesting proposals. We’re especially interested in work that meshes well with the plans for Rails 3.0, which will be in full swing by the time GSoC launches. If your proposal gets accepted, Google will pay you $4500 over the course of three months to work on the code.
If you’re interested, head over to the GSoC site and start reading about the process. Student applications can be submitted starting March 23.
What if you’re not a student? You can still help out by brainstorming ideas on the Rails wiki. Or if you’re a Rails guru and ready to make a strong commitment to help out the next generation of developers, you can apply to be a mentor.
We’re looking forward to working with this year’s students, and expecting some outstanding contributions to Rails as a result!
Working with Rails? Tell the world
Working With Rails is an attempt to index all the developers around the world working with Rails. It offers a few ways to browse the index and while the authority and popularity lists are perhaps a tad silly, I love looking at the country list. 3 programmers in Peru, 1 in Kazakhstan, and 3 in Uzbekistan. How cool is that?
Recent Rails job postings from the Job Board
We’re going to start posting a summary of recent Rails job postings from the 37signals Job Board every few weeks. All of these positions are for Rails programmers, but be sure to click through for individual listings on the additional requirements:
If you’re looking for Rails programmers, you can post a listing at the 37signals Job Board. The price is $250 for 30 days of air time.
Finding programmers and designers for Rails projects
The Signal vs Noise Job Board is a new alternative for finding good programmers and designers to work on Rails projects (among other things). It puts your job pitch in front of the tens of thousands of people reading the Signal vs Noise weblog. It comes at a price of $250 for a posting of 500 words visible for 30 days.
CNET, Fleck, and NYTimes.com are all using it to advertise developers with Ruby and Rails experience. If you’re just looking for programming positions, you can subscribe to the RSS for the programming section.
As you might have noticed from the URLs, this job site is using the new Simply Restful plugin. Our playground for RESTful living on Rails.
Jobster looking for lots of Rails developers
Jobster is buying into Rails big time. Over the next few months they are looking to hire no fewer than 10 developers. Those over in the Getting Real camp may cringe at the idea of bulking up your team so quickly, but Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg aims to keep things small and nimble:i5labs pushing the limits of Rails
In November, PlanetMoon launched Infected, a first-person shooter game for Playstation Portable. The PSP game has two-pieces, one, the actual PSP game (which is C++), and a statistics reporting tool (how many kills did you get, how many people did you infect, where in the world are they). Any time someone wants to grab their stats, it kicks in the PSP Web Browser, which points to a Ruby on Rails server. The team behind this is Jason Wong’s i5labs. Jason blogs about some of the challenges of working within the constraints of PSP console.
i5labs also just finished a Zubio chair massage kiosk at the San Francisco Shopping Center. You schedule 10 or 20 minute massage sessions using a touchscreen, then swipe your credit card. The touchscreen system is implemented with Rails. Jason shares details of the code and hardware.
i5labs is also looking to hire a part time Ruby on Rails developer (who could eventually go full time). If you’re interested drop them a note at jobs@i5labs.com.
We’ve seen the limits of Rails pushed before, when Mike Clark and James Duncan Davidson mixed Rails with Cocoa with VitalSource. Anyone else using Rails outside of the traditional web context?
Rick Olson is for hire
Rick Olson is a friend of the core group, an accomplished extender of Rails, the driver behind Rails Weenie, and a great guy to boot. If you’re looking to hire someone with strong Rails skills, give Rick a look.
A few more Rails jobs in NYC, Santa Clara
Sebastian Delmont from New York City is looking for 1-2 full-time (no telecommuting) Ruby on Rails developers for a new consumer-focused startup. Write him sd at notso.net. 3 Leaf Networks is looking for a single programmer in Santa Clare for work on another start-up in Rails.
Two additional Rails' cores join 37signals
Sam Stephenson and Marcel Molina are no longer available for custom consulting jobs through Ionist. Both are now “made men” of the 37signals syndicate. They will certainly continue to amuse us all through projectionist, though.
That restores the 37signals part of the Rails core to 1/3. Still down from 1/1 in January and 1/2 before going to a counsel of 12. But once again respectable ;)
Working professionally with Rails?
We’re trying to get a sense of who and where people are doing commercial work with Rails. So is the framework paying at least a substantial part of your bills? Put your name on the list.
Marcel Molina and Sam Stephenson forms Ionist
Marcel Molina and Sam Stephenson are both core developers of Rails and has been riding the express since the very first release of the framework. In that time, they’ve delivered countless Rails applications and of course contributed to the framework with both code, documentation, and spirit.
Ionist is their new company specializing in Ruby on Rails consulting and application development. If you’re looking to get a whole project done for you in Rails or already have a team that just needs some expert guidance, these guys are exactly what you’ve been looking for.
They’re currently accepting new projects, so hurry up. They blog at project.ion.ist.
Ruby on Rails making inroads in corporate America
Bank of America must surely be the archetypical corporate America company. The kind that puts the e, n, t, e, r, p, r, i, s, and e in Enterprise. Ruby on Rails is on their radar. An innocent job posting from Monster.com lists “Ruby (on Rails)” as a “Nice to Have”. Not too shabby, cabby. The technology adoptive curve is certainly getting compressed. The jump from early adopter to mainstream is growing shorter.
Two more Rails jobs: C3 MediaGroup, Sprout
Another set of companies looking to hook up with Rails developers:
Three new Rails jobs: NetworkChemistry, IntegralNet, Mirak
The commercial interest for using Rails is ever growing and I keep getting leads on new jobs. Here are the latest three openings:
David Siegel wants to build his film app in Rails
David Siegel has been working on an interesting database for the structure of films:
He’s looking to team up with one or more Railers on either pay or barter basis:
See more at his posting for the Story Structure Project.
