Re: Search for developer for payed development

[Bart Mariën <bart marien bednet be>]

Hi All,

I had some response to this request. As there don't seem to be any specific rules against job posting; here we go:


We are a non profit. We use debian/gnome for a dedicated distance learning tool.
We have about 600 units installed and scaling up towards 1200. Have a look on our website, it's actually pretty cool what we do :) www.bednet.be

The learning tool is basically a customized video conferencing app.

We heavily rely on Pulse audio to configure audio devices . In our current setup we get quite some support(helpdesk requests) related to configurations of audio devices that use a combined mini-jack for microphone and headphone. Especially new laptops nowadays have one combined port instead of two separate.

What we have found is we can configure pulse audio to automatically select newly connected devices, which works great. However, pulse audio jack-detect cannot determine if the newly connected device is a microphone, headphone or combined device.  So if a user for example wants to use external speakers and the built in microphone, the moment the speakers are connected, pulseaudio will reconfigure speaker and microphone. Which is wrong ...

Canonical has built a tool which will prompt the user the to select which device he/she connected. Have a look here: http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/2014/03/07/headset-jacks-on-newer-laptops/
somebody in the community has already put a bug report here: 

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755062 and the maintainer at canonical appears willing to port the code to gnome (at least that is what i understand)


Requirements:

• Port the existing canonical code to gnome
  
• Create necessary graphics
• Ensure proper translation framework
• Discuss with gnome team how to get it upstream
• Must be built against gnome 3.14 (debian jessie)

To apply

• Just reply to this email
• Your estimate in hours or $ or €
• Time frame to delivery
• Preferably you have an upwork.com account to arrange payment
• Applications are excepted up till 19 November 17:00 CET

Regards,

Bart

On 13-11-15 12:09, Bart Mariën wrote:

Hi List,

We are currently looking for a developer to do some payed work. The code is to be contributed to the project.
Before I go into details, i wanted to know if there is any policy or preferred method of going about this.

Just fyi the scope is limited. We estimate 1 or 2 days of work for an experienced Gnome developer.
We have concrete requirements and work can start a soon as we have a candidate.

Regards,

Bart


 

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Bednet vzw - synchroon internetonderwijs

 

Bart Mariën - ICT Medewerker

Jean Jaureslaan 108 / 001 ,9050 Gentbrugge

GSM: 0476/ 053 358

www.bednet.be -  bart marien bednet be

 

Dankzij de vrijgevigheid van velen is Bednet gratis omdat onderwijs een recht is van ieder kind, ook als het ziek is. Wil u mee dit recht beschermen, surf dan naar www.bednet.be en ontdek hoe u ons kan helpen.