-*- text -*- GNU Service Directory --------------------- This is a list of people who have asked to be listed as offering support services for GNU software, including GNU Emacs, for a fee or in some cases at no charge. The information comes from the people who asked to be listed; we do not include any information we know to be false, but we cannot check out any of the information; we are transmitting it to you as it was given to us and do not promise it is correct. Also, this is not an endorsement of the people listed here. We have no opinions and usually no information about the abilities of any specific person. 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@prep.ai.mit.edu ** Please keep the entries in this file alphabetical **  Magnus Alvestad GNU Emacs, GCC, the Unix tools. Rates: Free, or from $50/hour. Entered: 1996-07-09  AO UrbanSoft St. Petersburg State University Science Campus St. Petersburg, Russia 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, HTML, WWW and Perl. Rates approximately 20 USD per hour. Updated: 1996-06-26  Joseph Arceneaux PO Box 460633 http://www.samsara.com/~jla San Francisco, CA 94146-0633 +1 415 648 9988 +1 415 285 9088 Recently led the project making Wells Fargo Bank the first to provide secure customer account access over the Internet. Former FSF staffmember. Performed X11 implementation of Emacs version 19, designed and implemented WYSIWYG Emacs. Installed and administered FSF network. Maintainer of GNU indent. Over 15 years experience with Unix and other systems, from writing ROM monitors to UI design and system administration. I provide installation, porting, debugging and customization or development of GNU and other Unix software. I also design and implement free software projects and consult on software engineering and systems design. Handholding and teaching services are also available as well as things like LAN and compute--infrastructure design. Time and material rates around $150 USD per hour, depending upon the particular job. I am also very interested in fixed-bid jobs. For selected non-profit organizations with worthy goals, I work for free. Updated: 1995-10-17  Gerd Aschemann Osannstr. 49 D-64285 Darmstadt Tel.: +49 6151 16 2259 http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~ascheman/ - System Administrator (UNIX) at CS Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany - 16 years expirience with CS, Systemadministration on different platforms - 9 years with UNIX/Networking/FreeWare/GNU/X11 - 7 years organizer of Operating Systems and Distributed Systems courses - Lectures on System and Network Administration - Platforms: Solaris, SunOS, Ultrix, OSF1, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, SCO - Distributed Platforms and Information Systems (CORBA, WWW, Java, FTP) - Experience with parallel environments (Connection Machine, Meiko, Parsytec) - Consultant for other UNIX users at TU Darmstadt Rates are at 100,-- DM (~60 US$) per hour minimum, depending on the job. I am willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs. Updated: 1996-06-24  Basis Technology Corp. One Kendall Square, Bldg 200 Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. Tel: +1-617-252-5636 Fax: +1-617-252-9150 E-mail: Web: http://www.basistech.com Technical Expertise: Multilingual software development Internationalization and localization of software products International character encodings, including Unicode, ISO-10646, ISO-2022, ISO-8859-n, JIS, KSC5601, BIG5, GB2312 Translation of technical materials into Japanese, Korean, and Chinese including HTML, SGML, RTF, MIF, etc. GNU-related Services: Custom internationalization and localization of GNU software, or applications developed using GNU tools (GCC, G++, Emacs Lisp, etc.) Custom multilingual application development based on MULE. GNU Contributions: Organized 1992, 1993, and 1994 fund-raising seminars and lecture tours for FSF in Japan. Negotiated book royalty agreements with Japanese publishers on behalf of the FSF. Negotiated hardware contributions from Japanese PC vendors to the FSF. Contacts: Carl Hoffman, Steve Cohen, or Karen Watts Entered: 1996-07-15  Laurent Bernardin 16, rue Dicks L-6944 Niederanven Luxemburg +41 1 632 7469 Support and installation of all GNU software. Expertise: C, C++, Java, Motif, X, Unix administration, network security Rates: ~60 US$ / hour (Flux 2000.-) Entered: 1996-07-16  Paul Black Sydney, Australia I am available for general consulting on GNU software. My specific areas of interest are: - general C, C++, ADA and APL programming - Gnu/unix utilities - Troff - Real Time Software - Linux - IP Comms, SMTP, NNTP, HTTP and WWW - Simulation I am happy to provide free consulting/services if the work is of the order of a couple of hours. If more time is required, I am happy to negotiate depending on the nature of the work, my indicative rate is $40 per hour. Entered: 1996-07-10  Keith Bostic I'm interested in supporting/extending the ex/vi editors, which I wrote. On-site or by email, rates are based on the project. Entered: 1996-07-15  Philip Brown (703) 893-8967 (prefer email) Northern-VA, D.C. Area Rates: $40/Hr; less for educational or charitable organizations Systems Supported: HP9000/7xx running HP/UX 8.07 - 10.X IBM RS6000 running AIX 3.2.X Also SGI/Indy and Sun/Sparcs Software Supported: Most all FSF (Gnu) software esp. GCC, Emacs, Binutils, GS, etc... Statement: I'd be more than happy to assist anyone in my area with acquiring, installing, and configuring any FSF tools/utilities on any of the above systems. I can help with other systems but I won't make any guarantees about them... I'm also willing to share my many years of experience with anyone having difficulty with these tools. I've been installing and using them for about 5 years now and I'll swear by their quality and the people/principles that made them available. Phil Brown Entered: 1996-07-15  James Craig Burley 97 Arrowhead Circle Ashland, MA 01721-1987 508 881-6087, -4745 (Please call only between 0900-1700 Eastern time, and only if you are prepared to hire me -- ask me to help you for free only via email, to which I might or might not respond.) Email: --preferred-- 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: $90/hour -- willing to consider flat-fee arrangements Updated: 1996-06-26  Michael I. Bushnell, p/BSG Becket House 66 Highland Ave. No. 8 Somerville, MA 02143 (617) 623-0654 All GNU software: Installation, customization, answering simple or complex questions, bug fixing, extension. Experience: I have done Unix and GNU programming for several years, I am the primary author of the Hurd (which provides most kernel related facilities for the GNU OS). I am easily available in the Cambridge/Boston area; work via email. I am willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs. Rates: $100/hr, negotiable, less for non-profit organizaions. Updated: 1996-07-09  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 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. Experience: adapted gcc, gas and binutils to work as cross-development tools for the Thomson st18950 DSP chip: GCC parser and typing system have been augmented to allow the manipulation of variables located in separated memory spaces. Porting on new platforms, and professionally developing software with the GNU tools in the Unix/X11 environment since they were first available. Rates: from 2000 FF/day to 150 000 FF/year, 40% discount for educational institutions, add taxes and expenses. Ask for list. Updated: 1996-06-26  Kevin Cosgrove I can help folks with porting & installation of many GNU and X packages on a variety of Unix platforms. My rates depend on the scope of each project but range from $35 to $90 per hour. Entered: 1996-07-15  Couvares Consulting 146 Mill Lane Amherst, MA 01002, USA Phone: (413) 253-2589 EMail: Contact: Peter F. Couvares Type of support: We offer phone/email support, installation, ongoing administration, training, programming, and specialized consulting for free software and other UNIX systems. Sample prices: USD50/hour commercial, USA25/hour nonprofit, sliding scale for individuals. Entered: 1996-07-15  Stuart Cracraft 25682 Cresta Loma Laguna Niguel, Ca. 92677 GNUline: 714-347-8106 Rate: $75/hour Consultation topics: Entire GNU suite - porting, compilation, installation, user-training, administrator-training Method: telephone line support, call-in via modem to your site, or direct visit. Experience: supporting GNU since the mid-1980's, coordinator of GNU Chess (original author), GNU Shogi, GNU Go. Ported GNU Emacs to Solaris (System V Release 4). Expertise in C, Emacs Lisp, and Perl. Customized programming also available. Updated: 1996-06-26  Noel Cragg 1129 State St. Ste. A6 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 805-899-4695 I'll do installation, debugging, and extension of GNU tools on a contract basis for anyone willing to hire me. Altered: 1996-08-05  Cygnus Support 1937 Landings Drive ...uunet!cygint!info Mountain View, CA 94043 USA +1 415 903 1400 voice +1 415 903 0122 fax Cygnus Support 48 Grove Street Somerville, MA 02144 +1 617 629 3000 voice +1 617 629 3010 fax Cygnus Support continues to provide supported, maintained versions of the GNU toolset including GCC, G++, the GNU debugger with graphical user interface, GNU linker, GNU macro-assembler and Emacs 19. In keeping with the rapidly advancing needs of software developers, Cygnus maintains a 90 day release cycle of the GNU toolset. Each release is regression tested and includes substantial improvements and additions to the existing matrix of over 65 supported platform configurations. Updated: 2Feb95  Marcus G. Daniels 31060 S. Kaufman Rd. Canby, OR 97013-9520 (503) 651-2694 I can customize, extend, port, and repair many types of free software. I maintain the CLISP Common Lisp implementation and contribute to several GNU packages, such as Emacs. Ten years of C and Unix experience. Consulting rates are negotiable, but starting at around $40 US/hr. I like fixed price contracts. Commuting about the Pacific Northwest US is practical for me and travel is fine for larger projects. Feel free to email me if you have a problem in mind or would like an estimate. I may also be able to assist in redirecting you. Entered: 1996-07-15  Edgar Der-Danieliantz P.O. Box 10 Yerevan 375009 AM ARMENIA Support for GCC (C & Objective C), X Window System, World Wide Web, x86-based embedded systems, logic programming, etc. Via Internet (mail, talk, irc, etc.) Experience: OS's: 4.3 & 4.4 BSD, SVR3.2 & 4.2, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, SCO, Solaris, SunOS, Ultrix, NEXTSTEP, UnixWare. Languages: C, C++, Objective C, Pascal, Tcl/Tk, Perl, Bourne Shell, PostScript, HTML, Prolog. Platforms: Intel, SPARC, Mac, VAX, NeXT. Rates: Depending on type of work, appx $20/hour. Contact for more information. Negotiable for individuals and non-profit organizations. FREE for individuals who can't pay. Your 'Thanks!' just enough! :-) Payment by international wire transfer. Entered: 1996-03-06  Free Software Association of Germany Michaela Merz Heimatring 19 6000 Frankfurt/Main 70 phone: (+49 69) 6312083) ert : (+49-172-6987246) email: (info@elara.fsag.de) Supporting all kinds of freeware (i.e. GNU), freeware development, consulting, training, installation. Special LINUX support group. RATES: Companies and for profit organizations : 100 US$ / hour Private and not-for-profit organizations : 40 US$ / hour ert (24h Emergency response team) : 300 US$ / hour Entered: 1994-04-14  Noah Friedman Building 600, Suite 214 2002-A Guadalupe St. #214 One Kendall Square Austin, TX 78705 Cambridge, MA 02139 (Local, faster to reach me) (Permanent) Author of several Emacs Lisp packages and parts of Emacs 19, as well as numerous utilities written in shell script and perl. Co-maintained GNU Texinfo and Autoconf for a couple of years. System administrator for a network of heterogenous machines. FSF employee Feb 1991--Sep 1994. I can perform installation, porting, and enhancement of all GNU software and any other free software; system administration for unix-type systems and ethernet networks; and I am willing to teach shell programming and Emacs Lisp. Fees negotiable, averaging $60-$75/hour. I can work in the Austin, TX area or anywhere accessible on the Internet. For larger jobs I may be willing to travel. Updated: 1996-06-26  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: 1996-06-26  Michael P. Deignan Ideamation, Inc. 136 Nelson Street Providence, RI 02908 (401) 331-3708 (401) 272-6449 fax. Rate: Varies depending on complexity of task. Hourly and fixed-rate contracts are available. Programs Supported: All Updated: 1996-08-08  Interactive Information Limited Interactive Information Limited is an Edinburgh-based company that specialises in WWW services and support for using the Internet for marketing. 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 Entered: 1995-11-13  Scott D. Kalter 2032 Corral Canyon Malibu, CA 90265-9503 Home: (310) 456-0254 Very familiar with all levels of Elisp programming. Taught Emacs use and customization in universities and industry. Extensive troubleshooting and user support experience. Co-developed an object-oriented extension to Elisp (Eoops) that can be used for projects. Extensive Elisp level modification for rapid prototyping of designs used in groupware research. This includes the development of an infrastructure to support multiple, communicating Emacs processes. Prefer e-mail communication to telephone calls. Updated: 1996-07-15  KAMAN SCIENCES CORPORATION 258 GENESEE STREET UTICA NY 13502 (315) 734-3600 CONTACTS: Dennis Fitzgerald : Paul Antonik Kaman Sciences has performed a GNU port for a custom RISC processor. We have experience in the definition and description of the machine register transfer language to the GNU tool-set. This includes rewriting and modification of the necessary description and source files of gcc, gas, and gld and other binutils. Kaman also has services for installation and setup of GNU tools, (GAWK, GCC, EMACS, etc.) on Sun workstations. Work is on a "service contract" basis and development is charged either hourly or as a fixed price contract. Consulting rates: $70 to $200 per hour. Updated: 1996-08-05  Ehud Karni I am an UNIX system programmer. My skills include writing in C and scripts. In the GNU domain, I consider myself an expert on Emacs. I have written several packages in emacs-lisp (.el) including: better Hebrew support, another marking system, emulation for CDC full screen editor (FSE), COBOL mode, mathematical expression computing, and enhancements to vc.el (customization) and to ange-ftp (added Novell and NT operating systems). I have installed and tested Emacs and my el's on several machines: DG, HP, Alpha (OSF) and PC (DOS). I installed and worked with several other GNU packages - RCS, Gmake, GCC and more, but I'm not an expert in these packages. I work in Israel and my normal rate is $40 per hour. Entered: 1996-07-15  Joseph R. Kiniry Caltech Mailstop 256-80 http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~kiniry/ Pasadena, CA 91125 Phone: 818-395-6846 Fax: 818-792-4257 Long-term high-level consultant in a variety of domains. See http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~kiniry/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 technologies. Time and material rates for local work vary regionally, but are currently $200 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. Entered: 1996-07-24  Bradley M. Kuhn http://www.smart.net/~bkuhn I am available for primarily Unix system administration consulting, including but not limited to installation, configuration and integration of GNU tools and other copy-lefted software such as GNU/Linux. I am particularly skilled at user hand-holding and assisting in the integration of GNU and other copy-lefted software into new environments that have not used such tools in the past. Please visit my homepage for more information on my background and skills. I am available for both 1099 (preferred) and W2 contracting in the Baltimore, MD metropolitan area. My rate is in the $40/hour range, depending on the circumstances. Rates for non-profit organizations are substantially lower, and possibly free. Entered: 1996-07-15  Fen Labalme CoMedia Consulting //www.comedia.com 40 Carl Street #4 San Francisco CA 94117 WE ARE EVERYWHERE (415) 731-1174 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: $75 hour & up, depending; flat rate jobs considered. Lower rates, barter or free for selected non-profits. Updated: 1996-07-15  Greg Lehey LEMIS Schellnhausen 2 36325 Feldatal Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Mail Services: Supply, porting, installation, consultation on all GNU products. Experience: 20 years OS and compiler experience, portations of most GNU products. Author of ported software CD-ROM for Unix 4.2, "Porting UNIX Software" (O'Reilly), "Installing and Running FreeBSD" and "The Complete FreeBSD" (both Walnut Creek). Rates: Choice of DM 150 per hour or hotline rates 3 DM per minute + 10 DM per phone call. Quick questions may be free. Limited free support available for purchasers of LEMIS CD-ROMs. Updated: 1996-07-06  Rohan Lenard 32 Holtermann St, Crows Nest, NSW 2065 AUSTRALIA +61 411250024 * The person behind much of bug-g++@prep.ai.mit.edu interaction - also known as . * Interested in providing first line support down-under. Experience: 10+ years C/Unix, 6+ years C++ Extensive experience with GNU tools, cross-compilers, embedded/hosted systems, realtime, simulations, and military software. Degrees: BSc (CS), BE (Comms), University of Melbourne Rates: AUS $75+/hr neg. Entered: 1996-07-17  Reuven M. Lerner 17 Disraeli Street Haifa 34333 Israel Telephone: 04-824-2265 (within Israel) +972-4-824-2265 (outside of Israel) http://www.netvision.net.il/php/reuven - System and network administration, especially Linux 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: $50-75/hour, less for non-profit organizations. Entered: 1996-07-10  Richard Levitte (in TeX: Richard Levitte Levitte Programming Levitte Programming Spannvdgen 38, I Spannv\"agen 28, I S-161 43 Bromma S-161 43 Bromma Sweden Sweden) Tel.nr.: +46 (8) 26 52 47 (there is an answering machine) e-mail: What I do: Primarly I work on GNU software for VMS, both VAX and AXP. I also work on GNU stuff for Unix on occasion. I'm familiar with SunOS (version 4.x.x), BSD (version 4.2 and up), Ultrix (version 4.2 and up) and Linux/Slackware. I've been porting GNU Emacs to VMS since spring 1991. This includes versions 18.57 to 18.59 and versions 19.22 and 19.28. I've also ported a few other programs, most notably autoconf version 1.x. Version 2.x is underway at the time of updating this entry. I maintain GNU vmslib. Programs supported: GNU vmslib: extending, installation, upgrading aid, simple and complex questions, you name it. GNU Emacs: porting, extending, installation, upgrading aid, customization, simple or complex questions, training, you name it. GNU autoconf: porting, extending, installation, upgrading aid. GNU zip, diffutils, m4, patch, texinfo: porting, installation, upgrading aid. GNU C/C++: installation, upgrading aid. I might start to hack at it some day. The list of programs I currently support represents both my interests and current priorities. Your interest and funding can influence my priorities. Experience: Fluent in TeX/LaTeX, C, C++, Perl, Emacs Lisp, Pascal as well as assembler on VAX, Motorola 680x0, Intel 8086 and 80x86. 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, as well as MS-DOS and IBM PC compatibles. I'm also knowledged in the a few Unix flavors. I have worked for four and a half years as a VMS system manager. I've also provided consulting services on IBM PC compatibles, as well as held classes for IBM PC users. A reference list is available on request. 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. $70-$100/hour (500-800 SEK in sweden), plus expenses. My rates are negotiable, depending on how interesting the project is to me. Updated: 1996-06-26  Gord Matzigkeit 2220 Capitol Hill Crescent http://www.enci.ucalgary.ca/~gord/ Calgary, Alberta T2M 4B9 Voice: (403) 282-1387 CANADA BBS: (403) 282-3919 I care more about people than I do computers. I enjoy helping novices learn more about free software, and I want to make free software fit *your needs* rather than vice versa. I am eager to help install badly-behaved source code packages, and have experience fixing them to conform to GNU standards. I am the maintainer of GNU dld and GNU libtool. I am very interested in dynamic technology, especially adaptive and highly flexible systems. I have administered free and proprietary systems in the departments of Civil, Electrical, and Undergraduate Engineering at the University of Calgary. I know how to diagnose a complex existing computer system and incrementally replace it with a superior free system without disrupting service. I have over 2 years of experience with all the major free operating systems: FreeBSD, GNU/Hurd, GNU/Linux, and NetBSD. I also have experience with some of the Project Athena distributed system tools: Hesiod, Kerberos 5, Moira, and Zephyr. I don't believe in making more money than I need. My rates start at $10/hr (dirt cheap). When I am not starving, I do not charge worthy non-profit organizations. Entered: 1996-07-15  Andrew McCallum 6623 Dalzell Place Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Home: (412) 422-0688 http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/mccallum Services: Support, enhancements, new development in: GNU Objective C GNUstep, both graphical and non-graphical. GNUstep Base Library: libgnustep-base (especially Distributed Objects) Interface between Objective-C and Guile or TCL: libguileobjc. Experience: 10+ years of UNIX experience. Programming for NeXTSTEP since version 0.8, 1988. MA and PhD in Computer Science. Extensive work on GNU Objective C Runtime. Author of GNUstep Base Library, including Distributed Objects FSF Chief Maintainer of the GNUstep Project. Contributor to GCC, Emacs, Guile. C, Objective-C, Postscript, Scheme, Lisp, ELisp, Linux. English and Francais. Rates: $90-$150 / hour, negotiable, depending on many variables. Entered: 1996-07-15  Erik Naggum P.O. Box 1570 Vika http://www.naggum.no 0118 OSLO phone: +47 2295 0313 NORWAY NIC handle: EN9 Have extensive experience with Unix and C (since 1983), Internet protocols (1987), International Standards for character sets (1988), SGML (1990), ANSI Common Lisp (1994); Emacs user and programmer from 1984 to 1987 (TOPS-20) and 1991 to present (Unix). Have worked on GNU Emacs development since early 1994, both in Emacs Lisp and C. Have been tracking development code for Emacs since mid-1995, and know new versions intimately. Services offered: installation, support, customization, and development of new packages, plus courses and seminars from basic usage through Emacs Lisp programming to writing extensions in C. General aid with all GNU software. Rates depend on duration of work: From $6/minute for <= 1 hour, to $500/day for >= 1 month. Service agreements are encouraged. Cover Scandinavia for on-site work. Remote debugging and help by mail available for smaller fees, without limits to distance. Please call only about actual work, I prefer mail for all other questions. I accept VISA and Mastercard, preferred for remote jobs and small amounts. Updated: 1996-06-28  NET-Community 38403 Pelton Road http://www.net-community.com Willoughby, OH 44094 USA finger info@net-community.com 1-800-919-0060 voice 1-216-946-7884 voice 1-216-953-5829 fax NET-Community provides support for the complete GNUstep toolset including the Objective-C runtime within GCC, the GNUstep Base Library, the GNUstep GUI Library, the GNUstep X/DPS GUI Backend, and the GNUstep Database Library. NET-Community also provides support for its own MediaBook software including the MediaBook Random Library and the MediaBook Speech Synthesis Library. NET-Community actively supports and develops free software on all GNUstep platforms; a portion of the proceeds, usually 20%, generated from CD-ROM sales go towards additional development and enhancement of GNUstep. Entered: 1996-07-25  Open Systems Consultants a.s St. Olavsgt. 24 N-0166 OSLO 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. No phone support. Entered: 1996-07-17  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 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. Entered: 1996-07-10  Dipl.-Inform. Klaus Kaempf proGIS Software Jakobstr. 117 D-52064 Aachen Germany http://www.progis.de Tel +49 241 470670 Fax +49 241 4706729 - 15 years C/Unix experience - 6 years VMS experience - Ported BFD library, Binutils, GNU Assembler, and GNU C to openVMS/Alpha. We do a lot of cross-platform (Unix-VMS-WindowsNT) development mostly with the GNU compiler environment. We are actively supporting GNU software on openVMS/Alpha. Rates start at 160.- DM / hour for support and installation. Larger projects are negotiable. Entered: 1996-07-25  Quiotix Corporation Menlo Park, CA Contact: Jeffrey Siegal jbs@quiotix.com 415 324-0535 Area of focus: Embedded systems--using GNU software to develop for embedded systems, 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. Services: porting, development, support, project management, advisory consulting. Rates: $125-$250/hour or fixed fees depending on services provided. Entered: 1996-07-10  Wolfgang S. Rupprecht 47 Esparito Ave. Fremont, CA 94539-3827 (510) 659-9757 Anything, (lisp, C, customization, porting, installing) I have written thousands of lines of GNU Emacs C and Lisp code. Original author of the floating point additions in Emacs 19. Rates: $95/hr. Updated: 1996-07-03  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, including but not limited to, UNIX systems. The people behind Signum Support AB have many years of general UNIX experience, both as system administrators and as programmers, and also extensive experience in maintaining the GNU programs, both administrating it and finding and fixing bugs. Services offered: - Support on Internet service software, especially the free Readynet Internet server we have developed for Linux and Solaris. - Support on Linux. - Installation and customizing GNU and other free software. We will make free software as easy to install and use as shrink wrapped programs. - Warranty protection. - Customization and porting. - Subscriptions to new versions which we will send monthly or with any other interval. - Finding, Recommending and Investigation of free software in any area of the customers choise. - Regular consulting. Rates: For software items, request our price list. For consulting, 700-900 SEK/hour. Updated: 1996-06-26  Jon Solomon 235 Main St., Apt 3C-1 East Hartford, Conn. 06118 +1 860 939-5573 Maintains all GNU software... Available for General Consulting (contact me if you are interested)... Sendmail a specialty... Can answer questions pertaining to the installation, maintainence, 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... Entered: 1996-04-09  Julian H. Stacey. http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Tel. +49 89 268616 (089 268616) Time zone: +01:00 Vector Systems Ltd, Holz Strasse 27d, D 80469 Munich (Muenchen), Germany. NO FREE HELPDESK ! Do Not Phone Me Unless You Either - Send me a DM 100 Eurocheque, 7 days before phoning, Or... - Start by negotiating the contract for my consultancy fees ! I earn my living from consultancy fees. I contribute code to public domain software projects. I don't mind giving a little free help occasionally, But be reasonable, define the human parameters First, Before you explain your technical wishes. Those I Hate Hearing From: Those who phone late evening, with complex weird problems, who want my time for free, who make no effort to speak my language (English), who are too lazy or mean to phone me a week or so later to hear any follow-up, who are too lazy to find a friend's email for me to forward Internet news/mail group follow-up to, who want me make expensive long distance calls phoning them back, after I've spent my free time on their problems. To those people: ... Don't phone me ! & I won't phone you ! Commercial Consultancy: Unix C X-Windows, Internet, with FSF FreeBSD etc. Systems engineering, hardware interfacing, real time, comms & scientific industrial, even Cyrillic & Chinese etc. Commercial Rate: DM/hr ~130-170. No Emacs. DM 1.5 = $1USA, DM 2.3 = 1 British Pound Work Place: Munich Germany, anywhere on the Internet. Resume, Company Profile: See my web page. Free Sources: FSF, FreeBSD current & releases, X-Windows, XFree86, NetBSD etc will be available for ISDN public access ftp around 8/96. Dial in, & write your own tapes for postal delivery. Access details available later via http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ QIC 1/4" 525M, 150M, & 60M, CAS-60M Cassette, Floppies. DM 100. Deutsch & Francais: I'm British, Man kann mir in Deutsch schreiben, (oder mich anrufen). Je comprend Francais, mais je n'ecris pas des responses en Francais. Free GCC-1.40 for Symmetric Computer Systems Model 375 (native cc fails): Updated: 1996-06-28  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: 1996-06-26  Kayvan Sylvan Sylvan Associates 879 Lewiston Drive San Jose, CA 95136-1517 Phone: (408) 978-1407 Fax: (408) 978-1417 I will help you port, install and customize GNU Emacs, GCC, G++, bison, and other GNU tools on almost any architechture 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: 1996-06-26  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: 1996-07-15  Jonathan Thornburg / BKIS Consulting E-mail: (preferred way to contact me) Postal: Box 8-7, Thetis Island BC V0R 2Y0, Canada Phone: (604) 246-3640 (somewhat unreliable) * B.Sc (Honors 1st Class) in Math+Physics+CS, M.Sc and Ph.D in Astronomy * 20 years computing experience using a wide range of software and hardware environments * Very fluent in C (12+ years experience) and Maple (4 years experience) * Fluent in Perl, Awk, Fortran, PL/I, Pascal, APL, Lisp, Reduce, Basic * Reading knowledge of C++ * Fluent in numerous machine languages * Very fluent (10+ years experience) in general Unix toolset and programming * Good knowledge (3+ years experience) of Unix system administration (SunOS, Linux, SGI) * Strong background in cryptography and Unix security, both theoretical and practical * Good general knowledge of Unix (kernel) internals and device drivers * Very fluent in TeX, LaTeX, also HTML, HTTP, and CGI programming * Member of Usenix (professional and technical Unix association) and SAGE (system administrator's guild) * Very strong background in numerical analysis * Strong backgrounds in hardware architecture, microprogramming, programming language implementation, compiler theory, data structures, OS design and internals, networking, graphics, symbolic manipulation, AI, security I'm available for Unix-based contract programming, software installation, and/or general system administration. My recent projects range from a (solo) 50K line C+Maple+Awk scientific application, to 1K line (solo) Perl and Awk text processors and "system glue" CGI programs, to fixing bugs in a (free) 50K line graphics package. Unless otherwise required by a client, all the software I write is covered by the GNU Public License. My basic rate is Can$50/hour for work I can do remotely over the Internet, (much) more for on-site work, less for selected non-profit organizations. Entered: 1996-08-13  Leonard H. Tower Jr. 36 Porter Street Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 Will work on most GNU software. Installation, handholding, trouble shooting, extensions, teaching. Rates: 100.00/hour + travel expenses. Negotiable for non-profits. Experience: Have hacked on over a dozen architectures in many languages. Have system mothered several varieties of Unixes. Assisted rms with the front end of gcc and its back-end support. Resume available on request. Updated: 1996-06-29  noris network GmbH Matthias Urlichs Schleiermacherstrasse 12 90491 Nuernberg Germany Phone: +49 911 59818-0 Fax: +49 911 59818-11 http://info.noris.de/ (German) Expertise: OS internals, esp. Linux and BSD, esp. device drivers Network protocol / program design and coding Utilities coding and maintainance Program debugging, testing User interface design and testing Several programming and tool languages 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 110 (~$70) per hour Support contracts start at DM 170/month + DM 30/supported system. Willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs. Rates don't include taxes. Updated: 1996-07-05  Paul C.A. van Gool Address: Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2785312 Fax : +31-15-2786480 I would like to provide unpaid support for the following things: - C - C++ - f2c - compilation and installation of most GNU packages Entered: 1996-07-15  Arne Wichmann EMail: Telephone on request. I support GNU software on the following platforms: Linux SunOS 4.X 5.X HPUX 9.X other platforms on request. Usual rates: 20DM per hour. Free support for private people as time permits. Entered: 1996-07-22  Jody Winston xprt Computer Consulting, Inc. 731 Voyager Houston, TX, 77058 (713) 480-UNIX, We have supported, installed, and used the entire GNU software suite for over 8 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. Entered: 1996-07-15  Lige Zhou Consultant Open Technologies Corporation Sun Lotus Bldg.2nd Floor 2-9-1 Chuou, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164 Japan Tel: +81-3-3365-2911 Fax: +81-3-3365-2920 E-mail: I have two years of experience porting and supporting GNU C Compiler and GNU Assember at the Wingnut project of SRA, Inc., Tokyo. I can provide free consultation on these products if the problem is not time-consuming. Entered: 1996-07-15  For a current copy of this directory, or to have yourself listed, ask: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu ** Please keep the entries in this file alphabetical **