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We provide this list to enable you to contact -service providers and decide for yourself whether to hire one. -Before FSF will list your name in the GNU Service Directory, we ask -that you agree informally to the following terms: - -1. You will not restrict (except by copyleft) the use or distribution -of any software, documentation, or other information you supply anyone -in the course of modifying, extending, or supporting GNU software. -This includes any information specifically designed to ameliorate the -use of GNU software. - -2. You will not take advantage of contact made through the Service -Directory to advertise an unrelated business (e.g., sales of -non-GNU-related proprietary information). You may spontaneously -mention your availability for general consulting, but you should not -promote a specific unrelated business unless the client asks. - -Please include some indication of your rates, because otherwise users -have nothing to go by. Please put each e-mail address inside "<>". -Please put nothing else inside "<>". Thanks! - -For a current copy of this directory, or to have yourself listed, ask: - gnu@gnu.org - -** Please keep the entries in this file alphabetical ** - -Alcove -12/13 place Indira Gandhi -92230 Gennevilliers -France - -http://www.alcove.fr -T?l.: +33 1 47 33 82 84 -Fax: +33 1 47 33 76 98 - -Alcove offers a comprehensive range of corporate-quality -Free Software related solutions, with technical support -via telephone, fax or email and remote system management. -We also offers consulting and training. Alcove is now developing -partnerships with top range companies in the computer business -like SQL Ing?nierie in its field of skills : consulting, technical -support... - -Rates approximately 4000FF per day, depending on the job. - -Updated: 1999-04-13 - -Amazonia Computing - - -http://www.efn.org/~rick - -745 Foothill Drive -Eugene, OR 97405 -541-465-9008 - -I provide development and technical support for free software -and open source systems including embedded programming, GNU/Linux, the -GNU development suite.. - -I have over 10 years experience building and maintaining systems ranging -from medical patient monitoring systems to Linux device drivers for -custom PCI plug in cards. - -Rates range from $75.00/hr to $85/hr USD. I am also willing to work -on fixed price contracts. - -Updated: 1999-04-02 - -AO UrbanSoft -St. Petersburg State University Science Campus -St. Petersburg, Russia -http://www.usoft.spb.ru - -AO UrbanSoft packages, markets and supports -industry standard free software products, -including the Linux operating system and -TeX document compiler. -The company also provides programming services -based on TeX, Tk, Python, HTML, Java, Perl and -Intranet. - -Rates approximately 15 USD per hour (as of 1997). - -Updated: 1999-04-02 by GNU staff - -Dipl.-Inform. Gerd Aschemann -Osannstr. 49 -D-64285 Darmstadt -Tel.: +49 6151 16 2259 -http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/VS/Mitarbeiter/Aschemann/ - -- System Administrator (UNIX and NT) at CS Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany -- 18 years working in the CS field, System administration on different platforms -- 12 years with UNIX/Networking/FreeWare/GNU/X11 -- 9 years courses on Operating Systems and Distributed Systems -- Lectures on System and Network Administration -- Platforms: Solaris, Linux, SunOS, Ultrix, HP-UX, Digital Unix, AIX, SCO, FreeBSDs -- Distributed Platforms and Information Systems (CORBA, WWW, Java) -- Experience with parallel environments (Connection Machine, Meiko, Parsytec) -- Consultant - -Rates are at 150,-- DM (~85 US$) per hour minimum, depending on the job. -I am willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs. - -Updated: 1999-04-14 - -Don Barry, Ph.D. -Austin, Texas http://www.chara.gsu.edu/~don/ - -Astrophysicist with extensive and varied hacker background. Substantial -expertise in mathematical modeling, instrument interface, low-level and -high-level hardware control, statistical analysis, automated/mathematical -typesetting. Also fluent in opto/electro/mechanical design. I try to find -solutions using free software when possible and specialize in GNU/Linux -platforms. Degrees also in chemistry and mathematics. - -Speak: C, APL, Fortran, J, Perl, Emacs Lisp, IDL, variety of machine -languages from CDC CYBER (!) to x86 families, TeX/LaTeX, sendmail, and -quite a few others. Experience on platforms from PDP to present. - -Rates: $75--$150 per hour + travel (if required) depending on the needs of -the project, the level of support and availability required, and its -interest to me. - -Services: consulting, design, porting, lecturing, support, project definition, -system implementation. - -Updated: 1999-04-02 - -Laurent Bernardin -16, rue Dicks -L-6944 Niederanven -Luxemburg - -+41 1 300 3712 - -Support and installation of all GNU software. - -Expertise: C, C++, Java, Motif, X, Unix administration, network security - -Rates: ~85 US$ / hour (Flux 3500.-) - -Updated: 1999-05-05 - -Dean Brettle Computer Consulting - - -http://www.brettle.com/ - -7485 Rush River Drive -Suite 710-193 -Sacramento, CA 95831 -916-422-8129 - -I provide development, technical support, and training for free software -and open source systems including GNU/Linux, the GNU development suite, -Tcl/Tk, Emacs, and the GIMP. - -I have over 9 years experience building and maintaining systems ranging -from computed tomography systems to airborne sensor control systems -- -all with free software. - -Rates range from $80/hr - $120/hr USD. I am also interested in working -on fixed price contracts. - -Updated: 1999-04-02 - -James Craig Burley -97 Arrowhead Circle -Ashland, MA 01721 -(Email and postal mail contacts only, please.) -Email: -Web: http://world.std.com/~burley/ - -Expertise: - Compiler Internals (author of GNU Fortran, for example) - Operating Systems Internals - Tools/Utilities Development and Maintenance - Microcode Development and Maintenance (primarily VLIW machines) - System Design (computers, operating systems, toolsets, &c) - Debugging (often asked to help debug Other People's Code) - Documentation (authored many books and ran a few doc projects) - Extensive experience with a variety of operating systems, hardware, - languages, and so on - -Rate: $100/hour - -Updated: 1999-04-01 - -C2V Michel Delval -82 bd Haussmann Jean-Alain Le Borgne -75008 Paris -France -Tel (33 1) 40.08.07.07 -Fax (33 1) 43.87.35.99 -Compuserve 100413,1012 -http://www.c2v.com/freesoft.htm -e-mail: - -Services: we offer source or source+binary distribution, -installation, training, maintenance, technical support, -consulting, specific development and followup on the GNU software -development environment: Emacs, gcc/g++, binutils, gas, gdb. - -Porting on new platforms, and professionally developing software -with the GNU tools in the Unix/X11 environment since they were -first available. - -Experience: GNU C Compilation toolchain for the SGS-Thomson D950 -and ST20 DSP chips. - -GNU C compilation toolchain (cross-compiler, compiler, linker, -assembler, debugger) for SparcV7 ERC32 based space systems -(Sextant Avionique / Alcatel Espace). - -Feasability study, analysis and prototyping of a complete -compilation toolchain based on the GNU programming tools for the -CSEM RISC microprocessor family. - -Rates: from 2000 FF/day to 150 000 FF/year, 40% discount for -educational institutions, add taxes and expenses. Ask for list. - -Updated: 1999-05-05 - -Bruce Dawson - -CodeMeta, Inc. -Manchester, NH USA -800-354-2209 - -Specializing in GNU tools such as guile, CVS, gnats, bash, gawk, fileutils... - -Services: - - o 800 phone support. - - o Modification and development. - - o Training. - -Rate: $75/hour or per quote. - -http://www.codemeta.com - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - -CodeSourcery, LLC -P.O. Box 6752 -Laguna Niguel, CA, 92607, USA -Phone: 714-347-8106 (prefer email) -Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~cracraft/index.html -Rate: $75/hour, and as appropriate for the project. - -Consultation topics: -Entire GNU suite - porting, compilation, installation, -user-training, administrator-training. - -Method: via any combination of telephone, dialup, Internet, in-person, email. - -Experience: supporting GNU since project inception, original port of -GNU Emacs to Sun Solaris, original author of GNU Emacs online tutorial. -Expertise in C, Emacs Lisp, Perl, Expect, Oracle, Informix, SunOS, Solaris, -NIS, NFS, system-monitoring via paging. Unix System and Database -administration or development. - -Updated: 1999-04-17 - -Cygnus Solutions - -1325 Chesapeake Terrace -Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA -+1 408 542 9600 voice -+1 408 542 9699 fax - -Cygnus Solutions provides supported and maintained versions of gcc, g++, gdb -with GUI, GNU linker and GNU macro assembler. In addition, Cygnus provides -these GNU software development tools for well over 100 host-target -configurations. Support includes bug fixes and semi-annual releases of the -toolset. Each release is regression tested and includes substantial -improvements and additions to the current release. Support is available for -groups of 5 or 25 on a wide range of standard, special and vintage -toolchains for native and embedded applications. New target processors are -being added regularly. Rates for support for standard products start at $7495. - -Cygnus Solutions contact: - - Kathy Powers - ph: +1-206-888-6002 - fx: +1-206-888-6145 - email: - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - -Marcus G. Daniels -1399 Hyde Park Road -Santa Fe, NM 87501-8943 -(505)984-8800 x267 - -I can customize, extend, port, and repair many types of free software. -I have software maintenance experience (e.g. CLISP, Swarm), and have -contributed to several GNU packages (e.g. Emacs). Twelve years of C -and Unix experience. Consulting rates start at $60 US/hr. - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - -DSS Distributed Systems Software, Inc. -7500 Abercrombie Dr., Suite 103 -Richmond, British Columbia V6Y 3J9 http://www.dss.bc.ca -CANADA (604) 270-9559 - -GNU-related services: - We specialize in support for GCC (mainly C and C++), including porting, - retargeting, and customizing. - Also, GNU and other free software that falls within our areas of expertise. - -Expertise: - DSS provides software design, implementation, and consulting services. - - Distributed systems: - o Client/Server architectures, computer networking, communication -protocols - o Directory systems, including X.500 and LDAP - o High-performance and special-purpose distributed systems and databases: - scalability, reliability, availability, transactions - o Computer systems performance analysis - - Compilers, translators, and interpreters, including "small" and - special-purpose languages - -Rates: - Consulting rates are $65-$200 USD per hour, plus - applicable taxes. Fixed-cost projects are also possible. - -Updated: 1999-04-20 - -Echo Labs -29 Weld St, http://www.iinet.net.au/~echo/ -Nedlands, WA 6009 -Perth, Australia -+61 (0) 41 356 0008 - -Echo Labs is a software consultancy that also provides support and -development skills. Specialising in GNU software, particularly Tcl/Tk -and Linux. We can deliver systems at a fraction of the cost of those -based on more traditional technologies. Internet/intranet and data -communications solutions, for all platforms are undertaken. GUI -front-ends done quickly. - -While typically involved in engineering and technical areas, any -GNU/Open Source software will be supported. - -For further details see: http://www.iinet.net.au/~echo/ - -Experience: 13+ years C/Unix, Sun, SCO, GNU/Linux, Win/NT. - Secure WWW servers (Apache SSL), Ecommerce solutions. - Systems programming, device drivers, hardware interfacing. - GNU tools/utilities, Embedded & realtime systems. - Communications protocols and implementation. - -Degrees: BAppSc (CS), Curtin University, Perth - -Rates: AUS $50-75/hr neg. - -Updated: 1999-04-13 - -Markus Fleck -Koeln/Bonn/NRW -Germany (DE) - -Services: -- Training Seminars: GNU/Linux; CGI programming; - Scripting with Tcl, Perl, Python, PHP3, awk; - Tk programming; IETF/W3C Standards; Internet -- GNU-based Groupware Solutions, Customization -- System Administration (GNU/Linux, SunOS/Solaris) -- Email "question answering" - -Rates: consulting/programming: DM 150/h (~$85); - seminar fees negotiated on individual basis - -Updated: 1999-04-04 - -Noah Friedman -4463 Moraga Avenue -Oakland, CA 94611 -(permanent) - -Author of several Emacs Lisp packages and parts of Emacs, as well as -numerous network and unix system utilities. Co-maintained GNU Texinfo and -Autoconf for a couple of years. Experienced unix systems engineer. -FSF employee Feb 1991--Sep 1994. - -I can perform installation, porting, and enhancement of all GNU software -and any other free software, especially for Linux/GNU systems; design -high-capacity hardware-redundant servers for production environments; -provide consulting on the use of version control management with CVS; and I -am willing to provide handholding for shell programming and Emacs Lisp -development. - -Fees negotiable, averaging $100-$150/hour. I can work in the California -bay area or anywhere accessible on the Internet. For larger jobs I may be -willing to travel. - -Updated: 1999-04-02 - -Brian Gough -Network Theory Limited http://www.network-theory.co.uk/ -Bristol, United Kingdom - -Tel: 0117 9681086 (in UK), +44 117 9681086 (outside UK) - -I provide support, development, and installation of free software on a -contract basis. I also do system administration. I can work at your -site, over the internet, or by phone/email. - -I have extensive experience in C, Perl, Unix and the internet, -including two years running a large website in the US. - -I can also provide specialized consulting in numerical software -development for scientific and quantitative applications. - -Rate: 40-60 pounds/hour, depending on task and length of project, negotiable. - -Updated: 1999-04-06 - -Ronald F. Guilmette -RG Consulting -1751 East Roseville Pkwy. #1828 -Roseville, CA 95661 -Tel: +1 916 786 7945 -FAX: +1 916 786 5311 - -Services: Development & porting of GNU software development tools. - -GNU Contributions: - Invented, designed, and implemented the protoize and - unprotoize tools supplied with GCC2. - - Designed and developed all code to support the generation - of Dwarf symbolic debugging information for System V Release - 4 in GCC2. - - Performed original port of GNU compilers to SVr4 system. - - Finished port of GNU compilers to Intel i860 RISC - processor. - -Experience: 13+ years UNIX systems experience, all working on compilers - and related tools. - - 7+ years working professionally on GCC, G++, and GDB under - contract to various firms including the Microelectronics - and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Data General (DG), - Network Computing Devices (NCD), and Intel Corp. - -Other qualifications: - Developer of the RoadTest (tm) C and C++ commercial - compiler test suites. - - Former vice-chairman of UNIX International Programming - Languages Special Interest Group (UI/PLSIG). - - Bachelor's and a Master's degrees, both in Computer Science. - -Rates: Variable depending upon contract duration. Call for quote. - -Updated: 1999-05-05 - - Interactive Information Limited is an Edinburgh-based company that - specialises in WWW services and in particular support for accessing - existing systems and information. - - Our staff have many years experience in using, and developing lisp packages - within, Emacs, and in using other GNU/Unix tools, particularly under public - domain UNIXes. - - We can provide services throughout the UK, at any level from general - consultancy through fetching, installing and customising software to - bespoke programming. Fees would be in the range #300 - #600 per day, - depending primarily on the size of the job. - - You can contact us - by email: - by phone: 0370 30 40 52 (UK) - (+44) 370 30 40 52 (International) - by post: 3, Lauriston Gardens, - Edinburgh EH3 9HH - Scotland - -Updated: 1999-04-30 - -Dipl.-Inform. Klaus K?mpf -L?hnerstrasse 14 -D-90491 N?rnberg -Germany - -- 18 years C/Unix experience -- 10 years VMS experience -- Ported BFD library, Binutils, GNU Assembler, GNU C, GNU C++, - GNU C++ libraries, and GNU Make to openVMS/Alpha. - -I do a lot of cross-platform (Unix/Linux-OpenVMS-WindowsNT) development -mostly with the GNU compiler environment. I am actively supporting GNU -software on OpenVMS/Alpha and OpenVMS/VAX. - -Updated: 1999-04-20 - -Joseph R. Kiniry -Caltech Mailstop 256-80 http://www.josephkiniry.com/ -Pasadena, CA 91125 -Phone: 626-395-3556 -Fax: 626-792-4257 - -Long-term high-level consultant with four advanced degrees in a -variety of domains. See http://www.josephkiniry.com/resume.html -for more information on professional and academic background. - -I provide installation, porting, debugging, customization, design, and -development of GNU and other UNIX and non-UNIX software. I am or have -been a certified developer with Microsoft, SunSoft, NeXT, and Amiga. -I have a great deal of development and management experience and an -extremely broad background which contributes to my excellent system -integration capabilities. I have a special expertise and conduct -research in distributed systems and component/object technologies. - -Time and material rates for local work vary regionally, but are -currently $350 per hour on the west coast. Other rates apply for -long-term jobs (day rates, travel, etc.) and remote work (usually 1/2 -fee). I am interested in fixed-bid jobs and will work for lower rates -for non-profit organizations and educational institutions. - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - -Bradley M. Kuhn - -http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn - -I am available for system administration and software development -consulting, including but not limited to installation, configuration and -integration of GNU tools and other copy-lefted software such as GNU/Linux -and the various distributions of GNU/Linux. - -Please visit my homepage for more information on my background and skills. -My resume is also available there. - -I am available for both 1099 (preferred) and W2 on-site contracting in the -Cincinnati, OH, USA metropolitan area, as well as remote consulting via -dialup or Internet connection anywhere in the USA. I have no interest in -permanent relocation at this time. However, temporary (one week maximum) -jobs with paid expenses will be considered. - -My rate varies greatly between $25-$40/hour, depending on the circumstances. -Rates for non-profit organizations are substantially lower, and possibly gratis. - -Updated: 1999-04-17 - -Fen Labalme -CoMedia Consulting http://www.comedia.com/ -142 S. Lake Merced Hill WE ARE EVERYWHERE -San Francisco CA 94132 JUST SAY "KNOW" - -Consulting, installation, customization and training for GNU Emacs, -and selected other GNU & network software. Design & implementation -of free software projects, as well as software engineering & system -design. I have been hacking Emacs since '76 when it was TECO and ^R -macros (don't ask), and am inter/intra-network, UNIX & Web friendly. - -Rates: $150 hour & up, depending; flat rate jobs considered. - Lower rates, barter or free for selected non-profits. - -Updated: 1999-04-17 - -Greg Lehey -LEMIS -PO Box 460 -Echunga SA 5153 -Australia - -Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 -Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 -Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 -Mail - -Services: Supply, porting, installation, consultation on all GNU -products. - -Experience: 25 years OS and compiler experience, ports of most GNU -products. Author of ported software CD-ROM for UNIX System V.4.2, -"Porting UNIX Software" (O'Reilly), "Installing and Running FreeBSD" -and "The Complete FreeBSD" (both Walnut Creek). - -Rates: Choice of AUD 180 per hour or hotline rates AUD 3 per minute. -Outside Australia, $US 100 per hour or $US 2 per minute. Quick -questions may be free. Limited free support available for -purchasers of LEMIS CD-ROMs. - -Updated: 1999-04-18 - -Alan Lehotsky -Quality Software Management -634 West St -Carlisle, MA 01741 - -Phone: (978)287-0435 -Fax: (978)287-0436 - -Services: - - Support for GNU compilers, including rehost/retarget - - General system software work (SW tools, O/S, device drivers) - - runtime library (especially floating point) - - project management - - software process improvement - -Experience: 15+ years of design and implementation of optimizing - compilers. "Mr. Bliss" at Digital in the 70's and early - 80's. Experience with Motorola 68k, PowerPC, SPARC, x86, - NS32K, ADI SHARC DSP. Compilers for languages including - Ada, BLISS, C, C++, FORTRAN, Pascal, Modula/2, O/S - experience includes Unix (OSF/1, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX), - VAX/VMS, Windows/NT, MacOS. - - 5 years experience with GCC internals, including major - changes to support 8 bit bytes on word-address SHARC DSP and - general support of PowerPC code generation. - -References available - -Rates: $100/hr. - fixed price possible for well-defined deliverables. - -Updated: 1999-04-02 - -Reuven M. Lerner -17 Disraeli Street -Haifa 34333 -Israel - -Phone: 04-824-2265 (within Israel) - +972-4-824-2265 (outside of Israel) - -Fax: 04-826-1219 (within Israel) - +972-4-826-1219 (outside of Israel) - -WWW: http://www.lerner.co.il - -- System and network administration, especially Linux-based systems - and networks -- Administration, training, and programming for Internet nodes and - World-Wide Web sites -- Installation, support and training in the use of Linux, Emacs, Perl, - and other free software -- Expertise in C, Emacs Lisp, and Perl - -Consulting rates: $75/hour, less for non-profits - -Updated: 1999-04-04 - -Richard Levitte (in TeX: Richard Levitte -Levitte Programming Levitte Programming -Spannvagen 38, I Spannv\"agen 28, I -S-168 35 Bromma S-168 35 Bromma -Sweden Sweden) -Tel.nr.: +46 (8) 26 52 47 (there is an answering machine) -Cellular: +46 (708) 26 53 44 -e-mail: - -What I do: - Primarily I work on GNU software for VMS, both VAX and AXP. I've - been porting GNU Emacs to VMS since spring 1991. I've ported a - bunch of other GNU programs as well. I maintain GNU vmslib. - For further info, see http://www.lp.se/~levitte/prof/resume.html - -Programs supported: - To a varying degree (ranging from extension and porting to - installation and simple questions) at the time of updating this - entry: - - GNU vmslib, emacs, autoconf, zip, diffutils, m4, patch, texinfo, - C/C++; on both VMS and Unix. - - Other GNU programs to a small degree; on Unix. - For further info, look at http://www.lp.se/products/gnu.html - -Experience: - Fluent in TeX/LaTeX and many programming languages. - Modified key elements in Emacs (e.g., memory and process management) - to work transparently on VMS. I have very good knowledge in the VMS - operating system. I'm also knowledged in the a few Unix flavors. - For further info, see http://www.lp.se/~levitte/prof/resume.html - -Your Rate: - $70-$100/hour (500-800 SEK in sweden), plus expenses. My rates - are negotiable, depending on how interesting the project is to me. - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - -Sean Levy -352 Roup Ave http://www.StAlphonsos.COM/~attila/ -Pittsburgh, PA 15232 +1.800.852.3322 -USA - -I have been a professional hacker for over 17 years, and have worked on -everything from PDP-10's and -11's and early microcomputers to modern Unix -workstations of various kinds, at all levels. I've done every kind of -hacking, in many different languages (including some I designed and -implemented). Current efforts are focused on Linux, GNU software, WWW-based -systems, and security. My resume and PGP key are available via my web -pages. - -Based in Pittsburgh, PA, available anywhere via the Internet. Possibility -of travel for some jobs. Speak Spanish, have traveled in Europe and -Scandinavia. - -Rates: $100 USD/hour standard, lower for non-profits or other worthy causes, - $200 USD/hour for pager access and 24-hour support - -Updated: 1999-04-17 - -Gord Matzigkeit -#15, 2105 Cornwall Street http://www.fig.org/~gord/ -Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 2K8 Voice: (306) 522-7884 -CANADA - -I will gladly help novice and intermediate computer users to install, -understand, and use free software, whether or not I have prior -experience with that software. I know my limitations well, and will -freely give other contacts if I cannot solve your problem myself. - -I have over 4 years of experience with several of the major free OSes: -GNU/Linux (Debian, Red Hat), NetBSD, FreeBSD, and GNU/Hurd. Some of -my specialties are networking, Emacs, Automake, Autoconf, C, Perl, and -shell script programming. - -My rates are negotiable depending on the task: usually $40-$60 -(Canadian) per hour. Flat rates preferred. - -Updated: 1999-04-13 - -Thi Nguyen -San Jose, CA, USA +1 408 314 3470 - -Expertise: Hardware Verification Tools and Environment - - simulators / transactors / stimulus generators - - scripts of all sorts / environment / flows - - elisp dvelopment, customizations - - GNU binutils adaptation for new processor architectures - - software QA methodology (including management) - - speak: C, C++, elisp, Scheme, Perl, Verilog, sh - -Please see ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/tt/ttn/resume.html for resume. - -Rate: $100/hr, possibly less - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - -David Nicol -Post office box 45163 -Kansas City, Missouri 64171 -david@tipjar.com -http://www.tipjar.com/dnconsult - -Unix, GNU/Linux, Perl installation, C, C++, Lisp, Perl programming. - -LRP routers. - -CGI programming. - -Installation, porting. - -Specification development, design, implementation, documentation. - -Current projects include: - implementing an extension to xterm - EROS scsi drivers - tipjar transaction service - UMKC remote access system - -Rate: $60/hour, or fixed contract. On-site support available in -greater Kansas City area. - -Updated: 1999-04-04 - -Jonas Oberg (TeX: Jonas \"Oberg -Kaserngatan 6 Kaserngatan 6 -S-723 47 Vasteras S-723 47 V\"aster\.as -Sweden Sweden) - -Phone: +46-21-144831 -E-mail: - -I offer support for most GNU software including the GNU -Hurd and also do system administration on GNU systems. -I can do free software development and have a good -understanding of automake, autoconf, flex, bison, guile, -texinfo and much more. Rates around USD$100. - -Updated: 1999-06-07 - -Peter Olsen -P.O. Box 410 -Simpsonville, MD 21150 - -pcolsen@acm.org - -What I do: Mathematical modeling and model building using Gnu - and other Free Software. Scientific and engineering - analysis, modeling, and programming in FORTRAN, C, LISP, - and Java. Statistical analysis. Emacs customization. - -Examples of my previous work: - 1. I built the model used predict the - amount of work required to clean up the Exxon Valdez oil - spill. Model was completed in ten days, used to allocate - resources for $2 billion summer cleanup, predictions were - accurate. - 2. I built a model applying commercial capital - investment standards to a Federal Agency budget, helped - support $250 Million budget increase. - -Credo: Engineering is the art of applying a professional - knowledge of mathematics and the physical sciences to - improve the quality of life. - -Rates: $225/hour (+ travel and expenses) on site, - $175/hour remote access. - -Notes: 1. Visiting Lecturer for Society for Industrial and Applied - Mathematics: Will speak without fee about Valdez model - (or other work) to Educational and not-for-profit - organizations (plus most-economical travel and living - expenses or travel or living arrangements in kind). - - 2. I do not accept offers which pose even the appearance - of conflict of interest with any present or former client - or employer. - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - - Open Systems Consultants a.s Open Systems Consultants a.s - St. Olavsgt. 24 Fabrikkvn 8 - N-0166 OSLO N-4033 FORUS - NORWAY NORWAY - - -Phone: Fax: - +47 22 20 40 50 +47 22 20 02 85 - -Web: E-mail: - http://www.osc.no - -Open Systems Consultants a.s can provide programming support for all -GNU software -- extending or adopting it to meet customer needs. -Prices vary with software and project. Hourly fees are in the $80-120 -range. Fixed-priced projects are also available. Phone support is -available only for customers with support contracts. - -Updated: 1999-04-23 - -Francesco Potorti` -Via S.Stefano, 8 -56123 Pisa, Italy -Tel. (050)560671 - -Emacs: installation and maintenance, training and tutorials, - customisation, extensions, troubleshooting. Author of some of - the packages in the emacs distribution, has made the porting - of emacs to the Motorola Delta architecture. - -Other: installation and maintenance of GNU software. Experience with - hylafax, RCS, gperf, etags, smail, indent, diff, gawk, gcc, - screen. Is the current maintainer of etags. - -Rates: 30-80 KL/hr, depending on experience on the particular task. - Average is 50 KL/hr $50/hr. - Prefer e-mail communication to telephone. - -Qualifications: Electronic Engineering degree, Pisa. Full time - researcher in CNUCE-CNR. - Familiar with elisp programming and porting of C programs. - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - -Quiotix Corporation -Mountain View, CA - -Contact: Jeffrey Siegal - jbs@quiotix.com - +1 650 843-1300 - -Areas of focus: Embedded systems and GNU/Linux platforms. Porting GNU -software to embedded systems, extending GNU software to better support -embedded environments, developing new tools and utilities for embedded -development using GNU software. Porting software to GNU/Linux-based -platforms, developing system software and extensions for GNU/Linux -platforms. - -Services: porting, development, support, project management, advisory -consulting. - -Rates: $125-$250/hour or fixed fees depending on services provided. - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - -Stanislav Shalunov - -Email: shalunov@mccme.ru -Phones: 732-967-0489 - -Installing, configuring, customizing and troubleshooting GNU Emacs, -GCC, GDB, CVS, most GNU utilities in fact. Help with other free -software as well. Suggesting suitable for your purposes free -software. Teaching and handholding. - -Rate: $60/hour + travel expenses if travel is required. (I'm -currently located in NJ.) - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - -Vin Shelton -EtherSoft, Inc -617.796.9086 - - -I have been a professional programmer for 20 years, with most of that time -spent doing UNIX/C/C++ hacking. My specialties are (in no particular -order): system/kernel hacking, speech recognition, perl, object-oriented -design and analysis, FSF software (I have built nearly every FSF package on -several different platforms), small language design and implementation, and -HTML/web programming. Currently I'm a member of the XEmacs and egcs beta -teams. My rates vary from $70 - $100 per hour, depending on the size of the -project. - -Updated: 1999-04-17 - -Signum Support AB -Teknikringen 8 -S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden -+46 13 21 46 00 voice -+46 13 21 47 00 fax -http://www.signum.se/ - -Signum Support AB is a company dedicated to supporting, developing and -distributing free software for mainly UNIX systems. The people behind -Signum Support AB have many years of general UNIX and Internet -experience, both as system administrators and as programmers, and also -extensive experience in maintaining and administering the GNU programs -and Linux. - -Signum Support develops and markets the free GUI equipped Readynet -Internet server, the free PHTTPD http server and the easy to use Linux -based Fuego firewall. - -Services offered: - - - Support on Internet service software, especially the free - Readynet Internet server we have developed for Linux. - - Support on Linux. - - Customization of Linux. - - Installation and customizing GNU and other free software. We are - making free software as easy to install and use as shrink wrapped - programs. - - Warranty protection. - - Finding, Recommending and Investigation of free software in any - area of the customer's choice. - - Regular consulting. - -Rates: For software items, request our price list. - For consulting, 700-900 SEK/hour. - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - - Jon Solomon - 235 Main St., Apt 3C-1 - East Hartford, Conn. 06118 - +1 860 313-2000 - - Maintains all GNU software... Available for General Consulting - (contact me if you are interested)... - Sendmail a specialty... Can answer questions pertaining to the - installation, maintenance, bug reporting and fixing for - most GNU products... Adhering to the FSF/GNU copyleft for all - work... (I only charge for the time it takes to do the above, - the software (and most GNU copyleft'd software) is free. - I can make tapes for you if you need that... - - Rate: $90.00/hour. - -Updated: 1999-04-13 - -Name: Julian Stacey , Fallback -Location: Munich Germany, & on the Internet. -Qualifications: University Degree, BSc Hons Computers & Cybernetics, 1980. -Phone: +49.89.268616 Fax: +49.89.2608126 Data: +49.89.26023276 -Resume: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ -Time Zone: +01:00 -Rate: 130-200 DM/Hour. -Commercial Independent Freelance Consultancy: - Unix (Pref. BSD or Linux), C, X-Windows, FSF Tools, Internet - firewalls, Systems engineering, hardware interfacing, real - time, comms & scientific industrial, Cyrillic screen & printer - etc. Custom design & Porting. No {Emacs, Cobol, Microsoft}. -Free Sources: FSF & all BSD sources, X-Windows, XFree86, free Ftp dial in - (info on web). Media Copy Charge depends on time+postage+media - 2Gig 90m DAT, QIC 1/4" 525Meg, 150M, & 60M; LS-120, CAS-60M. -Free GCC-1.40 For Symmetric Computer Systems Model 375 (native cc is broken). -Languages: Deutsch & Francais (I am English) - Man kann mir in Deutsch schreiben, (oder mich anrufen). - Je comprend Francais, mais je n'ecris pas des responses en Fr. -COMMERCIAL PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANCY: - - Please state you want to pay for consultancy at commercial rates, - & outline your project duration, etc. -! NO FREE HELP ! - - I Am Not A Help Desk ! I have no time to do that. - Neither the FSF nor anyone else pays me to offer any such service. - - I contribute source code to the public domain, but I sell my time, - which is Not available as a public service. - - I dislike phone calls from strangers seeking free advice on things - I may well not know enough about. Post such questions to an Internet - newsgroup or list (via a friend if you don't have Internet access) - & let someone with time, best knowledge, & inclination answer. - - If you must phone me, immediately ask for a few minutes advice - "Free Of Charge" (else if you just swamp me in technicalities - without first having the decency to let me know you'r Not a potential - paying customer, you'r just encouraging me to hang up). - - Give me an email address, so I can forward follow-up info. - - Volunteer to phone back next week to hear subsequent info/solutions/ - questions I/friends/net have come up with meantime: Almost always the - information I have instantly to hand is a small fraction of the - useful information I could provide. I despise those who do not phone - back later, after I've spent time researching their problem; but I - refuse to also waste my money on long distance calls to inform them - what I've previously wasted my time learning for their benefit. - - Language: Make an effort, speak some English ! Use no German - dialect, only Hoch Deutsch. Spell very slowly & clearly, I am Not - good at fast German pronunciation, & don't recognise umlauts ! - - Numbers: Use Only single digits (think of keyboard input), use no - inverted German digit pairs (EG no "eight hundred, two and thirty", - & no convoluted French (EG "four twenties and fifteen") ! - -Updated: 1999-04-18 - -Richard M. Stallman -545 Tech Sq, Rm 430 -Cambridge, MA 02139 - -Emacs: anything whatever -Is anyone interested in courses in using or extending GNU Emacs? - -Original inventor of Emacs and main author of GNU Emacs and GCC. - -Rates: $6/min or $250/hr. - -Updated: 1999-04-14 - -Kayvan A. Sylvan -Sylvan Associates, Inc. -879 Lewiston Drive -San Jose, CA 95136-1517 -Phone: (408) 978-1407 -Fax: (408) 978-1407 - -I will help you port, install and customize GNU Emacs, GCC, G++, -bison, and other GNU tools on almost any architecture and operating -system. Questions answered. GNU C and lisp hacking available. I will -also do ongoing support and periodic upgrades if you get on my GNU -software subscription list. - -Rates: $70-$100/hour, depending on type of work. Substantial discounts -for long-term contracts and also for educational or non-profit -institutions. - -Experience: Many different Unix systems (2.9BSD to 4.4BSD, Xenix, SVR3 and -SVR4, Linux, FreeBSD). Systems programming and system administration on all -brands of Unix. Kernel hacking experience. Lots of porting experience. - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - -TerraTel AB -Tankeg=E5ngen 4 -S-417 56 G=F6teborg, Sweden -+46 31 50 79 40 voice -+46 31 50 79 39 fax -http://www.netg.se - -TerraTel AB is a company that does consultant jobs and holds courses -in the fields of Unix software, TCP/IP networking and Internet -applications. The people behind TerraTel AB have many years -of general UNIX experience, both as system administrators and as -programmers, and also extensive experience in maintaining the GNU -programs; in administration as well as finding and fixing bugs. - -Services offered: - -- Installation and customizing GNU and other free software. We will - make free software as easy to install and use as shrink wrapped - programs. -- Service and support subscriptions. -- Warranty protection. -- Customization and porting. -- Subscriptions to new versions which we will send monthly or with - any other interval. -- Finding, recommending and investigating free software in any - area of the customers choice. -- Regular consulting. -- Support on Internet service software, especially the free -- Support on Linux. -- Freeware based courses in Unix usage, C, C++, or any GNU tools - -Rates: For courses, contact us for a quote, -For consulting, $60-120/hour, depending on contract length. - -Entered: 1999-04-16 - -Leonard H. Tower Jr. -36 Porter Street -Somerville, MA 02143 -USA -+1-617-623-7739 -+1-617-629-5822 - -Will work on most GNU software. -Installation, handholding, trouble shooting, extensions, teaching. - -Rates: $ 150.00/hour + travel expenses. Fixed fee quotes available. - Negotiable for non-profits. - -Experience: Have hacked on over a dozen architectures in many languages. Have -system mothered too many varieties of Unixes. Assisted rms with the front end -of gcc and its back-end support. Resume available on request. - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - -noris network GmbH -Matthias Urlichs -Kilianstra?e 142 -90425 Nuernberg -Germany -Phone: +49 911 9352-0 -Fax: +49 911 9352-100 - -http://info.noris.de/ (German) -Expertise: - OS internals, esp. Linux, esp. device drivers - Network protocol / program design and coding - Utilities coding and maintenance - Program debugging, testing - User interface design and testing - Several programming and tool languages - We're an ISP => experience in all kinds of ISP-relevant problems - -Services: - Installation, debugging, enhancement, distribution, - for all kinds of free software. - System administration for most Unix-like systems. - Email, Fax, phone, and in-person consulting (and/or "question answering"). - Remote support and system monitoring (over the Internet), - Update service (new tools tested and installed automagically) - Internet access - -Rates: - DM 150 (~$85) per hour - Rates don't include taxes. - -Updated: 1999-04-13 - -Paul C.A. van Gool - - -Address: Illgen Simulation Technologies, Inc. - 130 Robin Hill Road, Suite 200 - Goleta, CA 93117 - USA - -Phone: (805)692-2333 -Fax : (805)692-2334 - -I would like to provide unpaid support for the following things: - -- C -- C++ -- f2c -- compilation and installation of most GNU packages - -Updated: 1999-04-23 - -Joel N. Weber II -185 Lowell St #2 -Somerville, MA 02144-2629 -devnull@gnu.org - -I can install GNU software, customize it, fix bugs, answer questions, -and teach. - -I am fluent in C, emacs lisp, Bourne shell, and awk. I also have a -good understanding of automake and autoconf. - -I have modified identd, cvs, and ftpd to change their security -procedures; I have modified the GNU fileutils to understand new flag -bits that were added to the Hurd. I have been involved in developing -Hurd translators. Long ago, I worked on developing a web browser; -that project was eventually killed, but I learned a lot in the -process. - -I am experienced in webmastering and system administration. - -Rate: $100/hour, negotiable. - -Updated: 1999-04-02 - -Arne Wichmann - -EMail: -Telephone on request. - -I support GNU software on the following platforms: - -GNU/Linux -SunOS 4.X 5.X -Irix 6.5 -HPUX 9.X -other platforms on request. - -Usual rates: 40DM per hour. Free support for private people as time -permits. - -Updated: 1999-04-14 - -Jody Winston -xprt Computer Consulting, Inc. -731 Voyager -Houston, TX, 77062 -(281) 480-UNIX, - -We have supported, installed, and used the entire GNU software suite -for over 10 years on many different Unix platforms. We have written -character device drivers and proc file systems for custom hardware -running on Linux. In addition, we have developed a custom X11 server -and X input extensions. Our consulting rate is $150.00 US dollars per -hour, negotiable, plus a per diem for out of town work. - -Updated: 1999-04-12 - - -For a current copy of this directory, or to have yourself listed, ask: - fsforder@gnu.org - -A current version should be available on our web site at http://www.gnu.org. - -** Please keep the entries in this file alphabetical **