-*- 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 **  Altrasoft 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 205 San Jose, CA 95129-1034 +1 408 243 3300 http://www.altrasoft.com Altrasoft provides corporate-quality support, development and user documentation for GNU Emacs, XEmacs and InfoDock. (InfoDock is a turnkey information management and software development toolset built atop emacs, written by one of our associates.) Emacs distributions for a variety of platforms are also available, as is support for other emacs variants, such as those often found on PCs. Our unique focus on emacs-related work allows us to attract expert talent in this area to keep you on the leading edge of productivity, especially if you do software development work. We do the porting, patching, coding, integrating, debugging, documenting and testing so that your people spend much more productive time on their mainline tasks. Standard support packages include help on all aspects of the packages supported, including all tools shipped as a standard part of the original package distribution. In general, we want to give you an unbelievably strong level of support, so where we can, we will also answer questions concerning any add-on Lisp code that is used at your site. Setup and customization help, bug fixes, and announcements of new releases are, of course, included. Support rates start at $1,500 USD, for single user support for one year. Discounts are available for group contracts. We also offer Golden Support contracts for those who need the absolute best in mission-critical support; contact us for details. Hourly development rates and fixed bid work are available. Updated: 1997-05-12  Magnus Alvestad GNU Emacs, GCC, the Unix tools, Linux, Jolt. Rates: Free, or from $50/hour. Updated: 1997-05-09  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, Tk, Python, HTML, Java, Perl and Intranet. Rates approximately 15 USD per hour. Updated: 1997-05-25  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 $150 USD per hour, depending upon the particular job. I am also very interested in fixed-bid jobs. For selected non-profit organizations with worthy goals, I work for free. Updated: 1995-10-17  Gerd Aschemann Osannstr. 49 D-64285 Darmstadt Tel.: +49 6151 16 2259 http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~ascheman/ - System Administrator (UNIX) at CS Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany - 17 years experience with CS, System administration on different platforms - 10 years with UNIX/Networking/FreeWare/GNU/X11 - 8 years organizer of Operating Systems and Distributed Systems courses - Lectures on System and Network Administration - Platforms: Solaris, SunOS, Ultrix, OSF1, HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, SCO - Distributed Platforms and Information Systems (CORBA, WWW, Java, FTP) - Experience with parallel environments (Connection Machine, Meiko, Parsytec) - Consultant Rates are at 130,-- DM (~80 US$) per hour minimum, depending on the job. I am willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs. Updated: 1997-05-07  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 Updated: 1997-05-07  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.-) Updated: 1997-05-07  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'm also willing to work with other UNIX systems not listed above. In addition, I'd be happy to share my many years of experience with anyone having difficulty using or configuring 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 Updated: 1997-05-07  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: $100/hour -- willing to consider flat-fee arrangements Updated: 1997-05-07  Thomas Bushnell, n/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 organizations. Updated: 1997-05-07  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://c2v.com 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 D950 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: 1997-05-09  Bruce Dawson - CodeMeta, Inc. Epping, NH USA 800-468-8750 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: 1997-05-09  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. Updated: 1997-05-07  Couvares Consulting 211 W. Gilman St., Suite 3W Madison, WI 53703 USA Phone: (608) 256-6201 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: USD75/hour commercial, 40/hour nonprofit, sliding scale for individuals. Updated: 1996-12-04  Stuart Cracraft 25682 Cresta Loma Laguna Niguel, CA, 92677, USA GNUline: 714-308-7900 Website: http://www.earthlink.net/~cracraft/index.html Rate: $90/hour Consultation topics: Entire GNU suite - porting, compilation, installation, user-training, administrator-training Method: telephone line support, call-in via modem to your site, work over the Internet, or in-person 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, Perl, Expect, Oracle, Informix, SunOS, Solaris, NIS, NFS. Customized programming also available. Updated: 1997-05-07  Noel Cragg 6244 Aberdeen Av Goleta CA 93117 805-899-4695 I'll do installation, debugging, and extension of GNU tools on a contract basis. CVS and configuration management are my current specialties. Rate: $75/hour or per-project negotiated fee. Updated: 1997-05-07  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 contacts: Kathy Powers ph: +1-206-888-6002 fx: +1-206-888-6145 email: Erik Westcott ph: +1 408 542 9637 fx: +1 408 542 9699 email: Updated: 1997-09-02 by rms  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 (e.g. Emacs). Ten years of C and Unix experience. Consulting rates start at $40 US/hr. Updated: 1997-05-07  Edgar Der-Danieliantz (Danielyan) P.O. Box 10 FAX +374 2 28 50 82 Yerevan 375009 ARMENIA Support for GCC, X Window System, WWW, Tcl/Tk, logic programming, Internet security, TCP/IP. Experience: OS's: 4.4BSD, SVR4.2, FreeBSD, SCO, Solaris, UnixWare. Languages: C, C++, Objective C, Pascal, Tcl/Tk, Perl, Prolog Platforms: Intel, SPARC, Mac, VAX, NeXT. Rates: Depending on type of work, approx. $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 or check. Updated: 1997-05-07  Echo Labs 29 Weld St, http://www.iinet.net.au/~echo/ Nedlands, WA 6009 Perth, Australia +61 (0) 41 985 9603 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 area, any GNU/freeware software will be supported. For further details see: http://www.iinet.net.au/~echo/ Experience: 12+ years C/Unix, Sun, SCO, Linux, Win/NT. Systems programming, device drivers, hardware interfacing. GNU tools/utilities, Embedded & realtime systems, software, firmware, hardware. Communications protocols and implementation. Degrees: BAppSc (CS), Curtin University, Perth Rates: AUS $50-75/hr neg. Updated: 1997-05-09  Free Software Association of Germany Michaela Merz Heimatring 19 6000 Frankfurt/Main 70 phone: (+49 69) 6312083) ert : (+49-172-6987246) email: (info@elara.fsag.de) Supporting all kinds of freeware (i.e. GNU), freeware development, consulting, training, installation. Special LINUX support group. RATES: Companies and for profit organizations : 100 US$ / hour Private and not-for-profit organizations : 40 US$ / hour ert (24h Emergency response team) : 300 US$ / hour Entered: 1994-04-14  Noah Friedman 1111 W. El Camino Real #109-331 Sunnyvale, CA 94087 (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 administrator. FSF employee Feb 1991--Sep 1994. I can perform installation, porting, and enhancement of all GNU software and any other free software, including the Linux kernel; system design and administration for unix-type systems and IP networks; and I am willing to provide handholding for shell programming, Emacs Lisp development, and version control systems such as RCS and CVS. Fees negotiable, averaging $75-$100/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: 1997-05-08  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: 1997-05-07  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: 1997-05-07  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: 1997-05-09  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: 1997-05-07  Kaman Sciences Corporation Griffiss Business & Technology Park 775 Daedalian Drive Rome, NY 13441-4909 (315) 334-4900 CONTACTS: Dennis Fitzgerald Tom Robbins 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 $175 per hour. Updated: 1997-05-07  Joseph R. Kiniry Caltech Mailstop 256-80 http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~kiniry/ Pasadena, CA 91125 Phone: 818-395-4840 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 object technologies. Time and material rates for local work vary regionally, but are currently $250 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: 1997-05-07  Bradley M. Kuhn http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn I am available for 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 and the various distributions of GNU/Linux. I am particularly skilled at integration of GNU and other copy-lefted software into new environments that have not used such tools in the past, and porting the GNU software to new Unix-based platforms. 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. My rate varies greatly between $25-$40/hour, depending on the circumstances. Rates for non-profit organizations are substantially lower, and possibly free. Please note that I have no interest in working with any Micro$oft related products! I want the primary focus of my work to be contributing to the free software community. Updated: 1997-12-04  Fen Labalme CoMedia Consulting http//www.comedia.com/comedia/ 40 Carl Street #4 WE ARE EVERYWHERE San Francisco CA 94117 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: 1997-05-07  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: 20 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 120 per hour or hotline rates AUD 2.50 DM 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: 1997-05-09  Rohan Lenard 32 Holtermann St. Crows Nest, NSW 2065 AUSTRALIA +61 411250024 * The human face behind the bug-g++@gnu.org mailing list - known in the past as and - now known as . * Interested in providing first line support and development. 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. Updated: 1997-05-17  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.netvision.net.il/php/reuven - 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 educational institutions. Updated: 1997-05-07  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 (10) 222 64 05 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: 1997-05-08  Lexa Software info@lexa.com 1590 The Alameda, Suite 102 San Jose, CA 95126 +1 800 278-2040 +1 408 278-2043 voice +1 408 278-2045 fax http://www.lexa.com Lexa Software provides support for GNU C/C++ including the GNU debugger and linker. Lexa has extensive experience supporting GCC/G++ on SNI and Pyramid as well as all other MIPS ABI platforms. We offer support to 2, 5, 25 and larger number of users via phone, email, ftp. Updated: 1997-05-01  Gord Matzigkeit 2220 Capitol Hill Crescent http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/~gord/ Calgary, Alberta T2M 4B9 Voice: (403) 282-1387 CANADA FAX: (403) 284-0137 I will help install badly-behaved source code packages, and have experience fixing them to conform to GNU standards. I will gladly help novices and intermediate computer users to understand, install, 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 do not want to solve your problem myself. I have installed and administered free and proprietary systems in home, academic, and business environments. I have practical experience in most aspects of Unix and network security. 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 several of the major free OSes: Linux/GNU (Red Hat, Debian, Slackware), NetBSD, FreeBSD, and GNU/Hurd. I am the maintainer of GNU Libtool and GNU DLD. Some of my specialties are: Emacs, Automake, Autoconf, SANE, C, Perl, and shell script programming. My rates start at $10 (Canadian dollars) per hour. When I am not starving, I do not charge worthy non-profit organizations. Updated: 1997-05-08  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. Updated: 1997-05-07  Mark P. Mitchell 3421 El Camino Real #35 Atherton, CA 94027 (650) 364-5360 http://home.earthlink.net/~mbmitchell/consulting.html Experience ---------- I am an experienced software engineer, with particular expertise in the field of programming tools. I am responsible for the implementation of member templates in currently available versions of G++ as well as many other G++ bug-fixes, and continue to work actively on improving G++. I am willing to work on any and all projects involving free software. Please see my resume at the above URL for further information on my experience and qualifications. Rates ----- My standard rate is $125/hr, but I am willing to negotiate flat fees, and discounts for deserving organizations. Updated: 1998-02-13 Erik Naggum P.O. Box 1570 Vika http://www.naggum.no 0118 OSLO phone: +47 8800 8879 NORWAY NIC handle: EN9 Background: I have extensive experience with programming under Unix, in C in particular (since 1983), with standards and specifications for Internet protocols (since 1987), International Standards for character sets and encoding schemes (since 1988), ISO 8879 SGML (since 1990, national head of delegation to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 18/WG 8 since 1991), and ANSI X3.226 Common Lisp (since early 1994). I have been an Emacs user and programmer from 1984 to 1987 (TOPS-20) and from 1991 to present (Unix). since early 1994, I have worked on GNU Emacs development, in both Lisp and C, and since mid 1995, I have been tracking the development code. Services I offer the free software community include supporting Emacs users and programmers with expert advice (gratis on USENET or mailing lists where others may benefit), customizing and writing Emacs functions and packages, delivering courses and seminars from tutorials to writing Emacs Lisp and C extensions, and providing general aid with all GNU software. My standard rate is a flat USD 80 per hour or USD 2 per minute (you decide which time unit to apply), but to offset the cost of processing money, the minimum credit card charge is USD 100 and the minimum invoiced amount is USD 250. Discounts are available to worthy causes -- present your case. Time away from home is billed at USD 40 per hour around the clock to encourage remote work. (Courses and seminars are negotiated individually.) Please call only about actual work, I prefer mail for all other questions. Updated: 1997-07-18  NET-Community 522 SW 5th Avenue http://www.net-community.com Suite 1105 Portland, OR 97204 USA 1-800-919-0060 voice 1-503-274-4423 voice 1-503-274-5406 fax NET-Community provides support for the complete GNUstep toolset including the Objective-C runtime within GCC, the GNUstep Base Library, the Display Ghostscript system, 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. Updated: 1997-05-12  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. Updated: 1997-05-08  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: 1997-05-08  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, GNU C, GNU C++, GNU C++ libraries, and GNU Make 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. Updated: 1997-05-08  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. Updated: 1997-05-16  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: 1997-05-08  Stanislav Shalunov Email: shalunov@mccme.ru Phones: on request Installing, configuring, helping learn any free software. Handholding, trouble shooting. Making custom changes to free software written in C. Teaching, lecturing, consulting. Want to have a free OS with free software serving your needs but do not want to spend time yourself or not very skilled with the computers? Cannot decide which free software suits your needs better? Drop me a line. Well, essentially, anything else on special request. :-) Rate: $30/hour if you are in Moscow and I am there when you request job done, $50 if the job may be done remotely (like configuring user level program), $60/hour + travel expenses otherwise. (Negotiable, significant discounts may apply.) Entered 1997-07-17 Vin Shelton EtherSoft, Inc 617.924.6437 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 beta testing team - I'm responsible for maintaining the version 19.15 patches and have written a few small packages/lisp hacks. My rates vary from $60 - $100 per hour, depending on the size of the project. Updated: 1997-05-09  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: 1997-05-12  Jon Solomon 235 Main St., Apt 3C-1 East Hartford, Conn. 06118 +1 860 895-8289 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... Updated: 1997-05-09  Name: Julian Stacey Location: Munich Germany, & on the Internet. Qualifications: University Degree, BSc Hons Computer & Cybernetics, 1980. Phone: +49.89.268616 Fax: +49.89.260812 Data: +49.89.26023276 Resume: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Time Zone: +01:00 Rate: 130-170 DM/Hour. 2.7846 DM = 1 Pound = US $1.6332 Commercial Independent Freelance Consultancy: Any Unix (inc FreeBSD, Linux etc), C, X-Windows, FSF Tools, Internet, Systems engineering, hardware interfacing, real time, comms & scientific industrial, even Cyrillic & Chinese interfaces etc. No Emacs. No Cobol. Free Sources: FSF, FreeBSD & NetBSD CVS & current (daily!) & releases, X-Windows, XFree86, Free dial in soon (details on web). Media Copy Charge ~DM 100 QIC 1/4" 525M, 150M, & 60M; & CAS-60M. Free GCC-1.40 For Symmetric Computer Systems Model 375 (native cc is broken). Languages: Deutsch & Francais Man kann mir in Deutsch schreiben, (oder mich anrufen). Je comprend Francais, mais je n'ecris pas des responses en Fr. ! NO FREE HELP ! - The Free Software Foundation do not pay me. - I earn my living from professional consultancy fees. - Though I write code for public domain ... - I will Not solve stranger's complex problems for free ! WHEN CONTACTING ME, DO THIS :- 1) Tell me Immediately, Are You: A) Expecting to pay my bill for professional consultancy. B) Seeking a few minutes advice free of charge. 2) Give me your email address, or that of a friend. or Volunteer to phone back ~ 5 days later to collect follow-up info. from the net. (No I will not incur bills phoning you back). 3) Speak English if you want free advice ! I speak German, & listen in French, but if you're not paying, make some effort too ! Updated: 1997-05-15  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: 1997-05-09  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 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: 1997-05-09  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: 1997-05-12  Jonathan Thornburg / BKIS Consulting E-mail: (preferred way to contact me) Postal: Box 8-7, Thetis Island BC V0R 2Y0, Canada Phone: (250) 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 (15+ years experience) * Fluent in C++, Perl, sh, csh, Awk, Fortran, PL/I, Pascal, APL, Lisp, Basic, Maple, Reduce, various machine languages * Very fluent (10+ years experience) in general Unix toolset and programming * Good knowledge (4+ years experience) of Unix system administration (SunOS, Linux, SGI) * Strong background (both theory and practical experience) in Unix/network security, computer graphics, X and Motif GUI programming * Good general knowledge of Unix (kernel) internals and device drivers * Very fluent in LaTeX, TeX, also HTML, HTTP, and CGI programming * Member of Usenix (professional and technical Unix association) and SAGE (system administrator's guild) * Very strong background (extensive experience) in numerical analysis * Strong backgrounds in hardware architecture, microprogramming, programming language implementation, compiler theory, data structures, OS design and internals, networking, symbolic manipulation, AI I'm available for Unix-based contract programming, software installation, and/or general system administration. My recent projects include several 20K-50K 50K line C/Maple/Awk scientific applications, several small (1K line) Perl/Awk text processors and "system glue" CGI programs, finding and fixing bugs in a (free) 50K line graphics package, and a partially completed project to port (really rewrite) the GUI of a 50K line C++ Netscape plugin from Win32 to Unix/X/Motif. 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, more for on-site work, less for selected non-profit organizations. Updated: 1997-05-19  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: $ 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: 1998-02-10  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 maintenance 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 150 (~$85) per hour Support contracts start at DM 220/month + DM 30/supported system. Willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs. Rates don't include taxes. Updated: 1997-08-04  Paul C.A. van Gool Address: Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2785370 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 Updated: 1997-05-12  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. Updated: 1997-05-16  Jody Winston xprt Computer Consulting, Inc. 731 Voyager Houston, TX, 77058 (281) 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. Updated: 1997-05-12  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: My profile is listed at: http://www.opentech.co.jp/~zhou/ I have two years of experience porting and supporting GNU C Compiler and GNU Assembler at the Wingnut project of SRA, Inc., Tokyo. I can provide free consultation on these products if the problem is not time-consuming. Updated: 1996-12-04  For a current copy of this directory, or to have yourself listed, ask: gnu@gnu.org ** Please keep the entries in this file alphabetical **