[NGO] Fwd: Webmaster and Web Designers needed for Network of Spiritual Progressives/Tikkun

[Jon Stahl]

They are currently using Plone, seeking a consultant.

best,
jon


Begin forwarded message:

>> From: Tikkun/Network of Spiritual Progressives 
>> [mailto:assistant3 at tikkun.org]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 11:40 AM
>> To: barb at coop-solutions.ca
>> Subject: Webmaster and Web Designers needed for Network of Spiritual 
>> Progressives/Tikkun
>>
>>
>>
>> We are seeking either one or several people to help us with our web 
>> site www.tikkun.org and www.spiritualprogressives.org and we are 
>> hoping to find them first within our own community.
>>
>> We are hoping to find someone who has outstanding skills and who 
>> might agree to work at a discount price because she or he is deeply 
>> committed to building an alternative to the current direction in 
>> American society and is willing to donate some part of what would be 
>> a "market wage" for their skills to help us make this happen.
>>
>> I. Job Description: Webmaster
>>
>>
>> Webmaster Job Description for Tikkun Magazine, Tikkun Community and 
>> the Network of Spiritual Progressives:
>>
>> Skills:
>>
>> XHTML, JavaScript, CSS
>> Plone Content Management System
>> Zope Application Server
>> Python
>> Apache
>> Basic Unix Systems Administration
>>
>> Description of Job Applicant:
>>
>> An individual with 2+ years of web application development 
>> experience. The candidate should have expertise in W3C standard 
>> XHTML, JavaScript and CSS, be familiar with modern content management

>> systems, particularly Plone, be familiar with the Zope Application 
>> Server, know Object Oriented programming (Python preferred), be 
>> familiar with Apache web server and have basic Unix systems 
>> administration skills. Additional, preferred skills are skinning and 
>> custom navigation; the ability to develop and customize the Plone / 
>> Zope configuration; product deployment and modification (custom 
>> member profiles, integration with external data providers); the 
>> ability to manage technical aspects of online communities; bonus 
>> skills would include Flash, Photoshop, XML. We are looking for 
>> someone with good communication skills and a team player. NOTE: 
>> CANDIDATE MUST BE SF/BAY AREA LOCAL.
>>
>> Description of the Job:
>>
>> Manage a single Plone / Zope Server running two web sites for a 
>> national magazine/non-profit organization (30K+ unique monthly 
>> visits).
>> Manage a set
>> of existing business applications and create new custom web 
>> applications to address day-to-day operations, membership, 
>> information management and other needs. Maintain an on-line archive 
>> of over 2,500 magazine articles. Manage the POP mailboxes of 10+ 
>> staff members.. Interface between the staff and hosting company for 
>> various support issues. Approximately 30 hours per month (may vary 
>> depending on projects) at 35$ per hour.
>>
>>
>>
>> Immediate Project Responsibilities: July and August
>>
>> A. Love Embodied Website Construction:
>>
>> Create the infrastructure for a new community publishing and 
>> communications space for the Network of Spiritual Progressives, Love 
>> Embodied, using the present site (spiritualprogressives.org) design 
>> template and content management system. This site will include the 
>> following components:
>>
>> 1. Articles: Published by the NSP on a regular basis 2. Reviews: 
>> Published by the NSP on a regular basis 3. Blogs: For Rabbi Lerner 
>> and Nichola Torbet to communicate with the NSP 4. Blogs: For NSP 
>> community leaders to post activity reports from their distinct 
>> communities, under the editorial guidelines and supervision of Rabbi 
>> Lerner & Nichola Torbett.
>> 5. News Aggregator: Titled the Current Thinking on Tikkun.org, a 
>> posting space for articles gathered from around the web of interest 
>> to the Network of Spiritual Progressives 6. Audio and Video: Posting 
>> space for audio and video podcasts and You Tube formatted video 7. 
>> Donation selector: For the NSP 8. Action Alerts for the NSP
>>
>> The Love Embodied page will require a new domain to be created for 
>> itself, and must be integrated with the content of the new Love 
>> Embodied email list serv of the NSP, which is in the process of being

>> designed. All content in the Love Embodied email list serve will link

>> back to updates and content on the Love Embodied page.
>>
>> B. Upgrades to existing Websites:
>>
>> Spiritual Progressives.org:
>>
>> 1. Current Thinking: Titled "Current Thinking" on 
>> spiritualprogressives.org, this news aggregator is currently linked 
>> to the present Current Thinking on Tikkun.org. It must be recreated 
>> as an independent news article posting site wherein content of unique

>> interest to the Network of Spiritual Progressives be posted, separate

>> from that posted to Tikkun.org
>>
>> 2.. Blogs: A unique NSP blog, to be authored by Rabbi Lerner and.or 
>> Nichola Torbett, must be installed within the site to provide NSP 
>> news updates.
>>
>> 3. Revision work to existing content: Major revision work to the text

>> and design of the main part of the page must be done to update it.
>>
>>
>>
>> 4. We need to be able to do email blasts that are responded to on our

>> website with instantaneous counts of which of various position is 
>> getting what amount of support. And the functionality to be able to 
>> list the names of people who sign a petition or a statement in favor 
>> of some particular cause or issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tikkun.org:
>>
>> 1. Blogs: Currently Tikkun.org has four bloggers who use a blogging 
>> system that came with the Plone website package. We must replace this

>> blogging software with a better system for blogging, featuring 
>> superior text editing, graphics uploading and audo/video uploading 
>> for current bloggers.
>> Preferred
>> blogging software integration: Typepad.
>>
>> 2. Revisions to Front Page Content: Replacement of photographs with 
>> newer graphic and text content. Minimal work.
>>
>> II. Web Designer
>> We want someone who can make our web as attractive, sharp, 
>> accessible, user-friendly, and compelling as any in the world, yet 
>> with an appearance that conveys the seriousness of our task and the 
>> interfaith spiritual nature of our commitment while maintaining a 
>> visual appearance that will not put off the many "spiritual but not 
>> religious" people who are part of our constituency and who do not 
>> want to be assaulted either by an excess of overt religious symbolism

>> nor by a New Agey flavor that would suggest a lack of intellectual 
>> seriousness and sophistication.
>>
>> TO APPLY:
>> Write us a detailed self-revealing letter about you and your skills, 
>> direct us to sites you've designed and tell us exactly what skills 
>> you personally brought to those projects, and tell us how much you 
>> normally charge for your work and what kind of a price break you 
>> would give us for this work.
>> Send to Joel at tikkun.org.
>>
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