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Heard from Kieran at TriNet. We're still getting the team off the ground, but it could be fun and interesting to figure out how to offer benefits to people working on Gittip.

What is Co-Employment?

When working with a PEO, your company enters into a shared employment relationship. The PEO becomes the "Employer of Record” and is responsible for payroll and payroll tax compliance, benefits administration, workers' compensation, processing unemployment claims, and other HR-related administrative tasks. Your company remains the "Worksite Employer" and continues to retain day-to-day control and direction of the worksite employees.

I propose that Zeta Design & Development, LLC DBA Gittip.com hire Joonas Bergius as a part-time software engineer. (Note that this relationship will not prevent Joonas from pursuing other employment relationships as well.)

Background

https://github.com/joonas
https://twitter.com/prometheus

Joonas was the first person to respond to the Gittip is Hiring post of six weeks ago. He did so by joining the #gittip IRC channel and starting to contribute code. Since then Joonas has become the second-most-prolific contributor, with 50 commits to date. His specific accomplishments for Gittip include:

• Implementing a declarative ORM based on SQLAlchemy (https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/pull/482)
• Refactoring the test suite (https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/pull/591)
• Fire-fighting production issues (https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/issues/626)
• Helping other contributors (https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/pull/573, https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/pull/625)

Joonas has, in my view, amply demonstrated his commitment to Gittip and his competence as an engineer, and he has agreed to let me propose that we hire him.

Privileges

As a part-time software engineer, Joonas will be given:

• Collaborator status on the "gittip" app on Heroku. This is the main app for www.gittip.com and includes access to the production database.
• Admin status on our Sentry account. This is where we log exceptions.

This is in addition to the privileges that @joonas already enjoys as a member of the "www.gittip.com" team in the zetaweb organization on GitHub, which has access to change the www.gittip.com repo and manage issues in the issue tracker.

Responsibilities

Joonas will be charged with:

• Monitoring and responding to errors on www.gittip.com
• Making and deploying new releases of www.gittip.com
• Keeping the repo for www.gittip.com well-factored, -tested, and -documented
• Orienting and assisting new and junior contributors to the www.gittip.com repo
• Reviewing and merging/closing pull requests

Compensation

Zeta is an open company, one of the hallmarks of which is that it doesn't compensate its owners and employees. If you appreciate Joonas's work, then I encourage you to include him in your giving on Gittip.

Process

This proposal is open to input from the wider Gittip community. We'll make a final decision after a period of discussion.

I propose that we hire Luke Strickland (@clone1018) as a Community Advocate for both Gittip and Aspen.

Background

https://twitter.com/clone1018

Luke was the second person to apply to work for Gittip, before we started this humans repo. Here is Luke's original application:

https://github.com/zetaweb/www.gittip.com/issues/456

He is active in both of our IRC channels on Freenode (#gittip and #aspen) and is competent as an IRC op. He's also been known to reach out to Gittip and Aspen users on other IRC channels as well as on Twitter. He also wrote the Gittip-Everywhere Chrome extension, which we've already adopted as our official browser extension.

Privileges

As a Community Advocate, Luke will be given:

• IRC channel management permissions, specifically, +ASRfiorstv on #aspen and #gittip on Freenode. That means he'll have all permissions on both channels, and will also be marked a "successor", meaning he'll be promoted to a "founder" of these channels in the event that my account (whit537) is deleted.
• Formal recognition of his role as owner of Gittip-Everywhere, our official Chrome extension. For the time being, we'll continue to publish this extension under his clone1018 handle.

Responsibilities

Luke will be charged with:

• Managing the #aspen and #gittip IRC channels.
• Managing the Gittip-Everywhere browser extension.

Process

If Luke accepts this proposal, then we'll invite input from the wider Gittip community via Twitter. We'll make a final decision by consensus of all Zetaweb collaborators.

Stub ticket for now so I can send out the Monday Morning Missive. Proposal is that we give @wyze access to Sentry and Heroku so he can help with production.

Kim is working on gttp.co, our static widget server, and I propose that we bring her on as a contractor and give her access to manage deployments for gttp.co.

Proposed: Hire @abnor as a Public Relations/Graphic Design (Communications) Assistant

Hello!

My resume is pretty expansive so I'll just generalize my experiences.

I am a communications major with a love for IT and CS. I have a ton of experience with journalism-type tasks, such as digging up contact information and reaching out to all kinds of professionals. I have a knack for technical writing and guides, including putting together manuals (sketching and graphic art), or ripping them apart and explaining technical terms to live audiences (not afraid of public speaking).

I have experience using HTML/CSS back in 2007, but only have basic skills in using python, ruby, java, and C since 2010. It is my goal to catch up to html5/css3, javascipt (and android app dev), in addition to playing with R (I LOVE infographs! blog.okcupid.com).

I could help with the PR side of things, like to drive gittip towards a wider audience. I've got ideas churning in my head about tweaking layout, making text more user-friendly, and more aesthetic. I also see potential in using paypal accounts and other professional sites used to bring people together, like linked-in.

The more I visit the website the more excited I get about the idea of a generous community donating to selfless individuals. I'm also a bit of a philosopher in addition to enjoying deconstructing societal concepts and breaking down behaviors to their basic biological form. I just really want to get involved in this!