Meteor

Hi all,

I'm the maintainer of Meteor (http://meteorserver.org)
and the
developer of the Javascript web client for it.  It's a
streaming data
server designed for web applications, implementing a
technique known
as comet.

If you visit the site you'll see it in action immediately
because it
plots all traffic to the site in real time using a
starscape
visualisation at the top of every page.

We're rather short of perl expertise as the original coder
of the
server daemon has left the project, so I'm on the hunt* for
a new perl
developer or two who might be interested in getting
involved.

The more the merrier - contributors get the undying
gratitude of a
loyal user base, street cred and wads of cash**.

Cheers,

Andrew

* I don't think pleading for contributors constitutes a job
ad, but if
so please don't flame me, for I am but a humble PHP
developer.
** One of these is not true.

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:10:08PM +0000, Andrew Betts
wrote:

> We're rather short of perl expertise as the original
coder of the
> server daemon has left the project, so I'm on the hunt*
for a new perl
> developer or two who might be interested in getting
involved.

I know I don't have time, but for those who are interested,
start with
http://code.go
ogle.com/p/meteorserver/

In particular, it looks like Milton Keynes.pm were
(foolishly) suggesting that
they were looking for things to collaborate on:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2007/12/msg990
3.html

> The more the merrier - contributors get the undying
gratitude of a
> loyal user base, street cred and wads of cash**.

> * I don't think pleading for contributors constitutes a
job ad, but if
> so please don't flame me, for I am but a humble PHP
developer.
> ** One of these is not true.

Only one? 

Nicholas Clark

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 15:33 +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:10:08PM +0000, Andrew Betts
wrote:
> 
> > We're rather short of perl expertise as the
original coder of the
> > server daemon has left the project, so I'm on the
hunt* for a new perl
> > developer or two who might be interested in
getting involved.
> 
> I know I don't have time, but for those who are
interested, start with
> http://code.go
ogle.com/p/meteorserver/
> 
> In particular, it looks like Milton Keynes.pm were
(foolishly) suggesting that
> they were looking for things to collaborate on:
> 
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2007/12/msg990
3.html
> 
> > The more the merrier - contributors get the
undying gratitude of a
> > loyal user base, street cred and wads of cash**.
> 
> > * I don't think pleading for contributors
constitutes a job ad, but if
> > so please don't flame me, for I am but a humble
PHP developer.
> > ** One of these is not true.
> 
> Only one? 

We'll be queuing up for the wads of cash then 

/J

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:10:08PM +0000, Andrew Betts
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm the maintainer of Meteor (http://meteorserver.org)
and the
> developer of the Javascript web client for it.  It's a
streaming data
> server designed for web applications, implementing a
technique known
> as comet.
> 
> If you visit the site you'll see it in action
immediately because it
> plots all traffic to the site in real time using a
starscape
> visualisation at the top of every page.
> 
> We're rather short of perl expertise as the original
coder of the
> server daemon has left the project, so I'm on the hunt*
for a new perl
> developer or two who might be interested in getting
involved.

Have you tried getting in touch with the cometd project
which was originally
founded by a JS person and a perl person[0] and seeing about
working with them?

[0] Actually, two perl people. But I've not had tuits to
work on it for a
while now so I don't really count - my greatest achievement
was probably
coming up with the Bayeux name ...

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