From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 26 12:41:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F4F37B960 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:41:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustidentd@obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21931 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:41:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38DE764F.DDC999CD@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:42:55 -0700 From: Wes Peters Reply-To: Keri Carpenter Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: sourceXchange is calling all device driver developers!] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Keri Carpenter wrote: > > sourceXchange is looking for a few good device driver developers! > > We are sending out this targeted email only to those developers who > have identified an interest in device drivers through the skills > listed in your technical profile on sourceXchange. > > Here's the deal: > > We are negotiating with two potential sponsors (large brand names within > the graphics card and sound card markets) who are interested in > sponsoring a number of projects having to do with graphics and sound > card drivers for Linux. > > If we can convince them that our talent pool is able to meet their needs > then they will sponsor a few projects to start, with MANY more to > follow if all goes well. > > In that vein, we need a quick response from you so that we can quickly go > back to the sponsors and show them the enthusiasm and level of skill of > our developer community. > > Please send an email back to us to indicate how interested you are in > participating in these types of projects and in what capacity -- as a > Developer, Spec Writer or Peer Reviewer. If you could include a line > about a previous experience writing device drivers, that would be great! > > Email us back soon so that we can get these sponsors on board as soon > as possible. Then, we can start posting funded RFPs and get > you, our developers, some cool RFPs to work on! > > Look forward to hearing from you. :-) > > Keri Carpenter > Developer Relations > keri@collab.net > http://www.sourcexchange.com -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message