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GNU Service Directory
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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:
	[e-mail]

** Please keep the entries in this file alphabetical **

Alcove <[e-mail]>
12/13 place Indira Gandhi
92230 Gennevilliers
France

http://www.alcove.fr
T?l.: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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

<[e-mail]>
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 <[e-mail]>
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          <[e-mail]>
Osannstr. 49
D-64285 Darmstadt
Tel.: [phone]
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.       <[e-mail]>
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
<[e-mail]>
[phone]

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

<[e-mail]>
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: <[e-mail]>
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 <[e-mail]>
82 bd Haussmann              Jean-Alain Le Borgne <[e-mail]>
75008 Paris
France
Tel [phone]
Fax [phone]
Compuserve 100413,1012
http://www.c2v.com/freesoft.htm
e-mail: <[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    -    <[e-mail]>
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 <[e-mail]
3421 El Camino Real #35
Atherton, CA 94027
[phone]
http://www.codesourcery.com

CodeSourcery specializes in customization of, enhancements to, and
support for all GNU software.  We have particular experience in the
field of programming tools, and have been responsible for many
features in the GNU C and C++ compilers including the implementation
of member templates and type-based alias analysis.  Mark Mitchell, one
of our co-founders, is an official maintainer of the EGCS C++
front-end.

We also have experience with GNU tools ranging from emacs to binutils
to gdb to autoconf, and are willing to work on any and all free
software projects.

Please see our web page at www.codesourcery.com for more information
about our products, services, and prices.

Updated: 1999-04-12

Stuart Cracraft         <[e-mail]>
P.O. Box 6752
Laguna Niguel, CA, 92607, USA
Phone: [phone] (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
<[e-mail]>
1325 Chesapeake Terrace
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA
[phone] voice
[phone] 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: [phone]
	fx: [phone]
	email: <[e-mail]>

Updated: 1999-04-12

Marcus G. Daniels              <[e-mail]>
1399 Hyde Park Road            <[e-mail]>
Santa Fe, NM  87501-8943       <[e-mail]>
[phone] 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          <[e-mail]>
Richmond, British Columbia V6Y 3J9       http://www.dss.bc.ca
CANADA                                   [phone]

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                  <[e-mail]>
29 Weld St,                http://www.iinet.net.au/~echo/
Nedlands, WA 6009
Perth, Australia
[phone]

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    <[e-mail]>
Koeln/Bonn/NRW  <[e-mail]>
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                   <[e-mail]>
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                         <[e-mail]>
Network Theory Limited              http://www.network-theory.co.uk/
Bristol, United Kingdom

Tel: [phone] (in UK), [phone] (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    <[e-mail]>
RG Consulting
1751 East Roseville Pkwy. #1828
Roseville, CA 95661
Tel: [phone]
FAX: [phone]

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: <[e-mail]>
         by phone: [phone] (UK)
                   ([phone] (International)
         by post: 3, Lauriston Gardens,
                  Edinburgh EH3 9HH
                  Scotland

Updated: 1999-04-30

Dipl.-Inform. Klaus K?mpf              <[e-mail]>
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                <[e-mail]>
Caltech Mailstop 256-80         http://www.josephkiniry.com/
Pasadena, CA 91125
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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
<[e-mail]>
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                     <[e-mail]>
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:	[phone]
Fax:	[phone]
Mobile:	[phone]
Mail	<[e-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                                               <[e-mail]>
Quality Software Management
634 West St
Carlisle, MA 01741

Phone:  [phone]
Fax:    [phone]

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		<[e-mail]>
17 Disraeli Street
Haifa 34333
Israel

Phone:     [phone] (within Israel)
       [phone] (outside of Israel)

Fax:       [phone] (within Israel)
       [phone] (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.:  [phone]      (there is an answering machine)
Cellular: [phone]
e-mail:   <[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                                           <[e-mail]>
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                      <[e-mail]>
#15, 2105 Cornwall Street            http://www.fig.org/~gord/
Regina, Saskatchewan  S4P 2K8        Voice: [phone]
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                      <[e-mail]>
San Jose, CA, USA               [phone]

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
[e-mail]
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

Jonas Oberg                  (TeX: Jonas \"Oberg
Kaserngatan 6                      Kaserngatan 6
S-723 47  Vasteras                 S-723 47 V\"aster\.as
Sweden                             Sweden)

Phone: [phone]
E-mail: <[e-mail]>

I offer support for most GNU software including the GNU
Hurd and also do system administration on GNU systems.
I can do free software development and have a good
understanding of automake, autoconf, flex, bison, guile,
texinfo and much more. Rates around USD$100.

Updated: 1999-06-07

Peter Olsen
P.O. Box 410
Simpsonville, MD 21150

[e-mail]

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:
  [phone]    [phone]

Web:                 E-mail:
  http://www.osc.no  <[e-mail]>

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` <[e-mail]>
Via S.Stefano, 8
56123 Pisa, Italy
Tel. [phone]

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
         [e-mail]
         [phone]

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: [e-mail]
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
<[e-mail]>

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		<[e-mail]>
Teknikringen 8
S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
[phone] voice
[phone] 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                     <[e-mail]>
   235 Main St., Apt 3C-1
   East Hartford, Conn. 06118
   [phone]

   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 <[e-mail]>, Fallback <[e-mail]>
Location:       Munich Germany, & on the Internet.
Qualifications: University Degree, BSc Hons Computers & Cybernetics, 1980.
Phone:          [phone]   Fax: [phone]   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	<[e-mail]>
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 <[e-mail]>
Sylvan Associates, Inc.
879 Lewiston Drive
San Jose, CA 95136-1517
Phone: [phone]
Fax:   [phone]

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 <[e-mail]>
Tankeg=E5ngen 4
S-417 56 G=F6teborg, Sweden
[phone] voice
[phone] 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.    <[e-mail]>      <[e-mail]>
36 Porter Street
Somerville, MA  02143
USA
[phone]
[phone]

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: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
<[e-mail]>
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
        <[e-mail]>

Address: Illgen Simulation Technologies, Inc.
         130 Robin Hill Road, Suite 200
         Goleta, CA 93117
         USA

Phone: [phone]
Fax  : [phone]

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
[e-mail]

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: <[e-mail]>
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, <[e-mail]>

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


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