Seeking software developers for building a search engine for OSHW

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We are building a search engine for open source hardware. Seeking two software engineers with experience in building crawlers and/or search engines. Interest in hardware (electronic engineering, mechanical engineering) and enthusiasm for open source a plus. This work is funded by NLNet and the resulting work will be made available to the public under free and open source licenses.

  • Location: Anywhere (remote, you’ll be checking in with me and I’m in UTC+1)
  • Start date: November
  • Commitment: full-time for 3 months
  • Remuneration: 4500 Euro a month

https://search.openknowhow.org (proof of concept site built in a few days, this project is to build that out into proper crawler and search)

https://openknowhow.org

Please email your CV to kaspar@kitspace.org. If you know of anyone that’s not on this forum that would be interested please do send them this text and ask them to get in touch.

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Excellent initiative. Congratulations!

I will spread the news to help find the right talent. I wish you all the success in this endeavor, once it may represent a major contribution in the usage of OSH and the practice of open science in general.

Cheers.

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Very cool @kaspar! Is this possibly related to the work that @Moe does?

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Yes, we are in touch about it already :slight_smile:

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