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Desperately seeking graphical/interactive designer

Sun, 08/01/2010 - 18:10
Following recent tradition, here is another post mostly unrelated to Amarok (next one will be on topic, I promise)

The company that I have recently co-founded, Memolane.com is in need of a new graphical and interactive lead designer.

The person who, until now, has been filling this position has choose to leave, as he has gotten a big break with his own previous company, although he will be helping us until a new designer is found and well integrated into the team.

So what do we offer?

As a very young startup, we offer long hours, constantly changing tasks (we all need to pitch in wherever needed) and huge responsibility for doing the best you can as there is no one else to fall back on.

But for the right person we also offer a unique opportunity to help shape a new company from a very early stage, to become a key part of a small, young and dynamic team, a very decent (for a young startup) salary and a nice little bag of lottery tic... uhm... stock options

If this person is you, get in touch with some examples of your previous work. If it is not you, but you know someone who might be interested, a good bottle of champagne or two is up for grabs for the person who refers us the designer we end up hiring.

Anyone interested or who wants to know more can mail me a "Nikolaj{at}memolane.com" or leave a comment below.

Gluon at Akademy

Wed, 06/30/2010 - 22:12
The rapidly moving and Qt based Gluon game creation and distribution framework will be present at Akademy, where two events in particular will happen:

On Sunday at 16.45 in Room 1, the Social Games talk will be happening. The goal of this talk is both describe what, in fact, this odd entity Gluon is (hint, what is KDE? Yeah, the new version ), and how you use it. There's also a quick round-up of what our Summer of Code students Kevin and Shantanu have been working on.

On Friday at 09:30 in Area 2, the Games with Gluon BoF session will happen. This is aimed squarely at everybody in our community who have even the slightest interest in game construction. Also, free breakfast included, but registration required for that, so if you want to get in on that, make sure you've registered (no worries, easy registration ).

Hopefully we'll have a good time together there, let's make it happen! We've got a world to take over


And so, in case that was not already clear:

Job opening: make libgpod work nicely on Windows and OS X

Sun, 05/02/2010 - 21:09
So, recently I was looking for something to do, but now I am in the position of having to turn down interesting offers because I am already committed elsewhere.

One of the projects I have been in touch with is of particular interest to me, as even though it is for a commercial company, the project that they need someone to work on would very much benefit the Free/Open Source software community in general and Amarok in particular, and therefore I offered to blog about it in the hopes that someone else might be interested in working with them. Had I not just a week before more or less accidentally co founded a startup (much more on that later), I would have been all over this project myself!

Basically they need a way to synchronize iPods on Windows and OS X, and rather than going a commercial route, they want to look into using libgpod and friends. Libgpod however is currently not ready for this task, as various bits are missing or needs to be improved on Windows and OS X, so the job is basically to do whatever is needed to fill in these missing bits.

They are looking for someone who can work full time on this and are willing to pay good money for it

If this sounds interesting, leave a reply here (remember to put your email in the comment form so I can get back in touch with you)





Finally! The first Gluon alpha released! :D

Tue, 04/20/2010 - 15:23


Finally, after long months of a whole lot of hard work, the Gluon team is now very proud to announce the immediate release and availability of the Gluon software packages - The Gluon libraries, Gluon Creator and a couple of little samples. So... Come one come all! Announcement over on the Dot. Sacha (DrIDK) has furthermore recorded a little screencast (yes, i know, it's on youtube, but hey, if you care enough about that, you are obviously using a html5 compliant browser and thus you should be able to view the video anyway ). Watch out, though, the sound is a little funny, thanks to GtkRecordMyDesktop being weird

Thanks to Eugene (it-s) for the amazing graphic above, which is used on the GamingFreedom.org website.

For those who don't want to worry about the reasonings behind Gluon and such, you can go straight to the download page and grab yourself a copy, and start playing around