Copyright sellout

Colin Jackson, who is stepping down as President of InternetNZ, gave an interesting interview on Radio NZ yesterday.

His closing line was: [it's] a great leap backward. It’s selling our children’s cultural birthright to a few companies who are good at lobbying.

His blog notes on the interview are here.

Creative Commons Licenses for New Zealand

Russell Brown writes:

"Something you may not know: the Council for the Humanities has been quietly working away on the development of a set of Creative Commons licenses for New Zealand. The project has included the creation of a stage-one website for Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand, which looks very nice. Congratulations are due to Brian Opie and all the others involved in the project, which began with a meeting at the National Library exactly a year ago."

https://www.tohatoha.org.nz/

Open source web developers

Job Description

  • New Projects,
  • leading edge technologies,
  • great team

3months is a Wellington based development company renown for creating innovative and leading edge web solutions. We have been in business for 7 years and experienced a consistent 25% growth rate over the last 3 years. High profile sites built include: www.nzlive.com, www.newzealandnow.info, www.e.govt.nz, www.natlib.govt.nz, www.internetNZ.net.nz, www.worksite.govt.nz .
We have a number of new and exciting projects coming up and are looking to grow our open source team. At this point we are considering 2 new roles (junior and senior level)
We can offer:

  • The chance to work with some of the smartest web developers in the country (who hate politics and love technology)
  • A friendly and enjoyable work environment with an excellent work/life balance and numerous social activities
  • Above market salary package for the right person

You should have:

  • A passion for all things open source
  • Excellent HTML/CSS skills
  • Experience in at least one of the following: PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python, Zope/Plone
  • Excellent communications skills
  • Proven ability to work in a team
  • A sense of humour

This is a genuine career opportunity and an opportunity to become part of one of Wellington’s most exciting companies.

Please submit a CV and Covering letter to jobs@3months.com

Location

Wellington

Salary Range

Up to $80,000