[Drupal] FW: [Main Contact] Drupal Developer needed for UCAT

[Shelton, Mitchell]

On 2/21/11 6:59 PM, "shootdaj at gmail.com" <shootdaj at gmail.com> wrote:


>Anshul Vishwakarma sent a message using the contact form at
>http://drupal.osu.edu/contact.
>
>Hi,
>
>I am currently the website administrator of the University Center for the
> 
>Advancement of Teaching (UCAT) located in the Younkin Success Center and
>I am  
>looking for someone who is well-versed in Drupal to take over my job in
>about  
>a month's time. I will be graduating this quarter and so I will be
>leaving  
>this job.
>
>The website currently (http://ucat.osu.edu) is a static website with a
>registration component built in Drupal using the Web Forms module. It's
>hosted on the OSU NextWeb server with the LAMP architecture.
>
>In the past few months, I have been in the process of upgrading the
>website  
>to Drupal. Unfortunately, I have run out of time and because of the scale
>of  
>the website, the upgrade is only partially finished.
>
>The requirements of this job would entail being the administrator of the
>website as well as upgrading it to Drupal at the same time. I'm sure the
>upgrade process will take a while so that's not an urgent requirement,
>but it  
>is part of the eventual goal for the job. It requires thorough testing of
>the  
>various parts of the website before actually launching it, so someone
>experienced in managing real-world Drupal websites would be a good fit.
>It  
>would also require being able to effectively communicate with various
>staff  
>members and being self-managed with little supervision. Also, it would
>require the ability to communicate with the server administrator through
>email.
>
>The Drupal component of the website is partially done and I have prepared
> 
>detailed documentation for the entire process so that whoever is taking
>over  
>me will be easily able to take over from where I'm leaving off, provided
>they  
>have a good working knowledge of Drupal. Currently Drupal 6 is being
>used,  
>because the PHP version required for Drupal 7 is not supported by the
>server,  
>but it is in the works so that is also a possibility.
>
>The compensation of the position is $10/hr and it requires work of about
>20hrs/week.
>
>I'm leaving this message here because I know OSU has a pretty big Drupal
>community, although I'm not sure where this message will go and how many
>people will actually see it, so I would appreciate it if you could tell
>me  
>how to reach the entire community maybe through a mass email advertising
>this  
>job. Please let me know if any additional information should be attached
>to  
>the email.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Anshul Vishwakarma