[p2p-hackers] Building Sr. Technical Leadership Team for NewSIP/P2P Project

[David Barrett]

Hi there, I'd love to learn more about your project.  

You describe it as a "SIP/P2P platform to support a new consumer-oriented
global network for content access, communication, collaboration and
multi-person interactive applications."

Specifically:

1) Are you building an actual application, a platform on which you expect
others to build applications, or both?

2) If the answer to #1 is "both", is your emphasis on creating a platform
(and thus the application is merely a proof of concept), or on creating the
application (and thus the platform is merely a plugin API with published
standards)?

3) Are you recruiting volunteers or paid employees?

4) It sounds like you already have some big guns on board.  Are you
primarily looking for people to implement a design that's mostly in place,
or are you primarily looking for people to flesh out a design?

5) If the answer to #4 is "both" or "to design", that sounds like a lot of
cooks in the kitchen.  What skills do you, Adam Fisk, Jed McAleb, and
Henning Schulzrinne lack that you need before you can have a solid design?

6) If you could describe your final product as "like X but with elements of
Y, and with Z, which is totally new"?

Thanks!

-david

> -----Original Message-----
> From: p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org [mailto:p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org] On
> Behalf Of Travis Parsons
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:12 PM
> To: p2p-hackers at zgp.org
> Subject: [p2p-hackers] Building Sr. Technical Leadership Team for
> NewSIP/P2P Project
> 
> Hi - I'm Travis Parsons and I'm leading a project to create a SIP/P2P
> platform to support a new consumer-oriented global network for content
> access, communication, collaboration and multi-person interactive
> applications.
> 
> Adam Fisk (Last Bamboo, Limewire); Jed McAleb (MetaMachine, eDonkey);
> and Henning Schulzrinne (SIP co-author; Columbia University CS Chair)
> are collaborating as advisors in the design of an enabling technical
> architecture.
> 
> I'm building out the technical leadership team that will join this
> design effort and carry out the implementation of the architecture and
> functional requirements and participate in the growth of the new
> company.  We're on the very front edge of a big shift in technology
> that will benefit the early movers.
> 
> This project/company is based in the Bay Area of California and
> working together on site as a team is preferred.  The ideal timeframe
> is immediately.
> 
> 
> Areas of focus for the project include:
> 
> .	Presence-based, social network applications
> .	Peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed application architectures
> .	Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) based multi-media communications
> .	Ubiquitous application access, cross-device compatibility and
> mobility
> .	Open platform orientation for creation and delivery of third-party
> applications to end users
> 
> 
> Ideal team members possess the following skills and experiences:
> 
> .	Experience managing large projects, preferably including
> coordination of automated testing, builds, and code coverage.
> .	P2P/distributed computing experience.
> .	Network programming experience (TCP and UDP).
> .	Understanding of SIP preferred.
> .	Object oriented design skills and experience using design patterns.
> .	XML experience.
> .	Experience with "agile" processes preferred, code reviews,
> test-driven development, etc.
> .	Java experience.
> .	C/C++ experience.
> .	Experience working with multiple platforms and mobile devices
> preferred.
> .	Ability to learn new protocols quickly.
> .	Experience scaling large systems to many thousands of simultaneous
> users preferred.
> .	Must believe you are an innovator.
> .	Must be capable of working in a limited-structure, dynamic, small
> company environment and have excellent people skills.
> 
> 
> If you are interested in learning more about the details of this
> project and how to get involved, please introduce yourself via email.
> Please provide some background on your interests and experiences to
> start the dialogue.  My email address is travis.parsons at gmail.com
> 
> I appreciate this forum and the ability to reach out to you.
> 
> Travis
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