Nikolaj Hald Nielsen

Following recent tradition, here is another post mostly unrelated to Amarok (next one will be on topic, I promise)

The company that I have recently co-founded, Memolane.com is in need of a graphical and interactive lead designer.

So what do we offer?

As a very young startup, we offer long hours, constantly changing tasks (we all need to pitch in wherever needed) and huge responsibility for doing the best you can as there is no one else to fall back on.

But for the right person we also offer a unique opportunity to help shape a new company from a very early stage, to become a key part of a small, young and dynamic team, a very decent (for a young startup) salary and a nice little bag of lottery tic... uhm... stock options

If this person is you, get in touch with some examples of your previous work. If it is not you, but you know someone who might be interested, a good bottle of champagne or two is up for grabs for the person who refers us the designer we end up hiring.

Anyone interested or who wants to know more can mail me a "Nikolaj{at}memolane.com" or leave a comment below.

So, recently I was looking for something to do, but now I am in the position of having to turn down interesting offers because I am already committed elsewhere.

One of the projects I have been in touch with is of particular interest to me, as even though it is for a commercial company, the project that they need someone to work on would very much benefit the Free/Open Source software community in general and Amarok in particular, and therefore I offered to blog about it in the hopes that someone else might be interested in working with them. Had I not just a week before more or less accidentally co founded a startup (much more on that later), I would have been all over this project myself!

Basically they need a way to synchronize iPods on Windows and OS X, and rather than going a commercial route, they want to look into using libgpod and friends. Libgpod however is currently not ready for this task, as various bits are missing or needs to be improved on Windows and OS X, so the job is basically to do whatever is needed to fill in these missing bits.

They are looking for someone who can work full time on this and are willing to pay good money for it

If this sounds interesting, leave a reply here (remember to put your email in the comment form so I can get back in touch with you)