The Montreal Tech League

From Hugh McGuire who is on the advisory board for the Atwater Library Digital Literacy project:

Start Date: Monday, July 9th, 2007
Position Type: Full-Time (1 yr-contract)

Have some tech skills and don’t want to work in a call centre? Apply to work in a challenging mixed-technology library/community centre.

Organization

The Atwater Library and Computer Centre (ALCC) is not-for-profit, independent community organization that has been promoting life-long learning and innovation since 1828.

ALCC operates a 12-station public access computer centre, a computer lab for private and group computer instruction, a free wireless network on the premise and in the adjacent park, and a budding web-hosting project for other community organizations. The Atwater Digital Literacy Project, launched in 2006, engages youth and community groups in using creative web technologies such as blogging, audio, video, digital photos.

Job Description

The Computer Centre Manager’s primary job is

* to maintain a small network of 30 workstations, two servers (one Windows 2k, one Linux), and wireless access
* to ensure the smooth day-to-day operation of the Computer Centre staffed by a team of 12+ volunteers of varying computer skill levels and
* to oversee a small computer classroom with 6 computers.

Remuneration: $15 per hour, 8-hour day, one hour for lunch

Deadline for applications: June 15, 2007

Skill Testing Question:

If the ip address of your linux server at work is 192.168.0.2, how would you use ssh from your home computer to connect to the server? (Please submit answer with your application)

Apply to:

Tanya Mayhew
Atwater Library and Computer Centre
1200 Atwater Avenue
Westmount QC H3Z 1X4
Fax: 514-935-1960
Email: tmayhew@atwaterlibrary.ca

For more information, please see the full job posting.

Standout Jobs - Changing the face of recruiting

Standout Jobs is a new startup born within a well-known trio from the Montreal Tech community, namely Austin Hill, Fred Ngo and Benjamin Yoskovitz. They are hiring.

From their site:

We believe:

* The job market is broken.
* Online job sites don’t work.
* Hiring people should be an ongoing process.
* Hiring people is about having conversations not bureaucracy.

Standout Jobs will change the face of recruiting.

But first, we need to build a core team of entrepreneurial-minded people, ready to change the game.

To bring their mission to fruition, the existing team is looking to hire somebody with expertise in Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

If you have met the team, you know they are a great trio of people, and no doubt it will be exciting to join them.

Here is some feedback about working with Austin Hill from the Ruby Montreal User Group:

I’ve worked for Austin (and his bro) during the Totalnet days though I doubt he would remember this web code monkey. :) The Hills are awesome people to work for. If wasn’t happy where I am now, and my Rails was ‘guru’ status I’d be applying myself.

You can be assured anything the Hills touch are gold or “at worse” one hell of a cool place to work.

Later.

- John Bateman