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Want to join a growing project? GigaPan is set to explode and is looking to beef up its staff with a couple of full time software developers. I’ve been making feature requests for months now and the current team just cannot keep up with the explosive growth of the website. The team sees the huge opportunity for growth and is now looking for a few good programmers. There are two job postings I’m aware of:

• Full-time software engineers to join the core development team of the website
  and the panorama stitching application
• Geospatial Software Architect

Here are some of the skills they’re seeking:

GigaPan web site skills:
Strong web development background
Django experience is strongly preferred
Javascript, DOM, AJAX, database and Linux experience
PHP, Actionscript 2.0 / 3.0 and Flash experience is a plus
JSON-based Web API use/design (GData, Maps etc.)
Software QA processes

GigaPan stitching and image processing software:
Strong C++ experience
Comfort with mathematics and image processing
MacOS and Windows development experience
Qt user interface experience is a plus
Software QA processes

The upside is huge. GigaPan is marketing an affordable system that turns consumer digital cameras into Gigapixel capable devices! The project is committed to open standards and working hard to realize the full promise of these remarkable images.

Send your CV to illah@cmu.edu and randy.sargent@west.cmu.edu. Please help them out if you can!

Although it had escaped my notice until today (when it first showed up in a Google Blog Search), it appears that the GigaPan team is once again maintaining a blog (of sorts).

I say once again because I’ve been told that in the early days of the GigaPan.org site there was a blog linked from the bottom of the homepage, however that blog apparently disappeared soon thereafter and hasn’t been seen since…

Until this past Monday, that is! The link at the bottom of the GigaPan.org page is back and the official GigaPan Blog is live at blogspot.com. Subscribed!!!

It’s good to see the GigaPan Team using a ‘blog’ as an official communications channel, but it’s really more of a syndicated press release space than a blog in its current incarnation since it doesn’t allow comments. Still, one-way communication from the team is a step in the right direction.

Want to join the converstation? Comments are open here at GigaPanner.com and you can always start your own blog. I’d love to hear from you!