I realized I wasn't clear in addressing the posting, and just one aspect
of it. Without providing my reasoning, stupid assumptions :)

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 21:44 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
>
> 
> I forwarded your message to gentoo-core so that it catches all Gentoo 
> developers. Besides wltjr and ali_bush (New Zealand) the Gentoo Java 
> project members are Europeans.

I failed to mention in my posting that basically based on the above.
While there are likely several current Gentoo Devs familiar with Java on
Gentoo. I am not sure how many are doing stuff with JEE on Gentoo or
other distros. If they were they would be on the Gentoo Java team :)

So aside from what Betelgeuse mentioned above. Not sure the response you
will get if your seeking to hire actual Gentoo developers. Thus I only
addressed the contributing to Gentoo side of things. Since it was
implied any person hired and/or the company would be looking to
contribute back to Gentoo.

Not sure if you were looking to hire from say the community. Thus the
posting to the list? Not that there is anything wrong with the email
being forward for other Gentoo devs to see. Just not sure the response.
So given the void in talent, so to speak. Which I assumed was more
visible to others; lack of package JEE stuff in Gentoo, etc. Wasn't
really addressing the employment side of things.

What are your requirements, or in other words how can we help? Are you
looking to hire Gentoo Developers, and have them contribute to Gentoo as
part of satisfying your needs, etc? Or looking to hire from the Gentoo
Java community?


Personally while I am in the US, I am self employed. Short of
contractual work. Most likely not something I personally would be
interested in. I don't do much if anything with JEE, just use some
components/pieces. Although I have wanted for a long time to see
support, and effort put into JEE on Gentoo. Since we have little to
none. So far no one has stepped up. Any potential there, I jump all over
it, so hopefully one day. Someone will package and maintain JEE app
servers, etc on Gentoo.

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
amd64/Java/Trustees
Gentoo Foundation