Creative Commons Taiwan Seeks An IT Specialist

Creative Commons Taiwan (CC Taiwan) seeks a full-time information technology (IT) specialist to build and maintain all necessary information systems to support the project. The position will maintain contact with the technical team at the Creative Commons office at San Francisco, and will take full responsibility in all works technical. The applicants must be skilled in Web and related technologies, fluent in Internet/Web standards, good at open source tools and services, and interested in the interplay of IT, law, culture, and socioeconomic matters. He or she will undertake major IT tasks planned by the project's Technical Lead, and will work with the Project Manager to collaboratively accomplish project goals. Please send in your application by Feb 18, 2011 to Creative Commons Taiwan by the following procedure:

• Send a pure text e-mail message outlining your skill, experience, and background. The e-mail must use the title "[CCTW Tech] OOO" (OOO is your name), and is sent to emyleo at citi dot sinica dot edu dot tw.
• No attachment in the e-mail message. However, you may provide links to your website, CV, and/or representative works.
• You may provide the names and e-mail addresses of two referees. Please describe how they relate to you.

For applicants who contact us by the procedure above, and who have the matching skill and experience, we will contact you within a week. We are sorry that we cannot respond to every e-mail messages we receive.

More information about the position (you may apply even if you don't have all the required skills):

Major Responsibilities

• Build and maintain all necessary information systems (software, hardware, and network)
• Cooperate with the technical team at the Creative Commons office at San Francisco
• Design and maintain project websites
• Provide IT training to project members and external teams
• Master and promote technical standards and practices related to Creative Commons Licenses

Skills

Website Design

• XHTML/CSS
• XML/RDF/RDFa
• Javascript
• Web accessibility

Script Languages

• PHP
• Perl

Content Management Systems

• Drupal, DokuWiki/MediaWiki, MovableType, etc.

Servers

• FreeBSD/Linux
• Apache
• MySQL

Experience

• Managing web servers
• Interacting with users
• Employing/Using web services
• Multimedia content authoring
• Documentation

Natural Languages

• Taiwanese Mandarin
• American English
• Other languages (optional)

Degree

• Bachelor or Master degrees (the position is an Academia Sinica research assistant; salary depends on degree and work experience)