-*- 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@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  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 **