Wanted: Front-end Developer
Friends, I urgently am looking for a front-end developer to rock the Dreamfish Community Tech Project. Please share the following “help wanted” with friends.
Help Wanted: Volunteer Front-end Developer
for Dreamfish
Project timeline: December, 2011 – February, 2011
Location: anywhere with good network connection
The Dreamfish mission is to connect any person from a rural village to an urban street to develop a thriving livelihood through an empowering mobile/web work community. Show what you’re working on, ask for help, hire and be hired, and celebrate your growth. Work like a human!
Project description:
Looking for a front-end developer who loves to do WordPress theming and mentor virtually with youth in East Africa as you go. Learn more about the big picture here: http://vonemmel.com/2011/09/community-tech-project-update/
Skills needed
- CSS3, HTML5, Javascript, PHP
- Git user
- Show beautiful quality of work
- Can jump in, learn and adapt quickly
- Connect easily with people
- WordPress theming experience
- Both team player and self-directed
- Experience with open source community or working in online collaborative environment
- Experience with theming other social software is a plus
Why do this?
• Change lives. Make tools that empower disadvantaged entrepreneurs everywhere to grow and develop
• Mentor youth developers in Nairobi
• Belong to a team of like-minded people
Get and go!
We would want for you to jump in and start immediately on a project.
We prefer that you live either in San Francisco Bay Area, Nairobi, or have strong distributed team experience
About Dreamfish
Dreamfish is the first peer-to-peer global work cooperative, co-owned by individuals with micro-enterprises from many walks of life in 24 countries. Dreamfish meets the basic human need for individuals to come together across boundaries of race, wealth and geography to create opportunities to develop as humans and entrepreneurs. While discourses about poverty are invested in institutional solutions rather than human solutions, micro-entrepreneur youth and women struggle to access a market, overcome cultural blocks, recover from mistakes due to working in isolation, and develop effective behaviors. These barriers to success are human and social.
Dreamfish can make the difference between failure and resilience with support to help move from isolation to networked, from apathy to agency, from self-defeat to effective choices. As each person gains income from projects with other Dreamfish members, member-owners invest 10% back in the cooperative and then share the profits and growth. Dreamfish partners include Stanford University, Fielding Graduate University, Nairobits School of Design, Craigslist Foundation, Poptech!, Institute for Sustainable Development among others.
How we work together
We are a small team of volunteers, working distributed from East and West Africa, San Franciso Bay Area and Midwest U.S. We put people first and are professional. We bring our humanity to work and play.
Connect
Contact me (Tiff) and Grant, project co-leads, in freenode irc #dreamfish
or vonemmel [at] dreamfish [dot] com and grantbow [at] dreamfish [dot] com
Timezone: We are currently in Nairobi, 11 hours ahead of PST
Gilbert Mutwiri 12:13 am on November 21, 2011 Permalink |
I have already sent my application to the email provided.Hope this gonna be a good experience
Tiffany von Emmel 1:06 am on November 21, 2011 Permalink |
Thanks Gilbert! Looking forward to talking with you. Karibu sana, you are welcome to join us in irc #dreamfish http://webchat.freenode.net/ and Grant and I will follow up on your email.