Letexa Job Offers
Letexa is a community project!
Sorry to disappoint you, but Letexa jobs are a little different from traditional ones. To get the idea you should read the "About" page. Basically, at this point you don't get paid – income is only going to come if the project goes somewhere else than down the drain.
On the other hand, IF it does, your satisfaction of having been part of the team that started it will be a compensation unmatchable even by a top-CEO position's compensation package!
Basically, it is the same as contributing articles to Wikipedia, or developing videos for Youtube. The major difference:
1 – You have no control over Wikipedia or Youtube, they are owned by others.
2 – All the money they make is for their respective owners and not yours.
Youtube is purely commercial, Wikipedia a foundation for "the common good", but to you that doesn't matter since the result is the same. Letexa on the other hand is a pure community project, and meant to make money! This money and control over this organization is yours – if you join and contribute!
Right now these jobs are not recommended for anyone needing money NOW. Instead, if you have some spare time to contribute and your skills match our job listings... well, go and have a look!
There are positions available in at least these categories below. In addition, if you know another option to advance this community project – you can create your position yourself!
Requirements for all jobs:
- Ability to work in a peer-based community
- Focus on results rather than endless discussion
- Prefer facts and figures over believes
- Experience with the pitfalls of Internet based collaboration of strangers, like frequent misunderstandings
- Everyone holding a leading function or getting money from the project must be prepared to frequently tell the community about their work. Community participation should not be treated as an added duty, but should happen as part of the work process. For example, this can be done by makin real or virtual meetings public and by making recordings and notes of them available as part of public progress reports.
Introduction
Letexa starts as a project that produces multimedia content. The focus is on learning content, and there the focus is on open source projects, but any other content is just as welcome. We are also going to require "soft skills" content to support our own project, for example. What are the best ways (rules, written and unwritten, best practices) to contribute, to discuss, to work jointly within this framework? Which tools exist and how are they used? For such and other questions relating to this project itself learning content must be created. The most important learning experience we provide is not so much our content, but the entire project itself!
There are two types of positions available for content creation, due to how content is produced. One, people with knowledge in a given subject have to write a script which details the content to be produced, linear and interactive. Two, in the next step after the script has been completed, (peer-)reviewed and approved, others or the same people use the script and the agreed-upon tools and design principles to create the actual piece of content.
Job – Content Creator
Content Creators write scripts. You don't need to knwo anything about multimedia content creation. You need to know something, that's all. If you know the Ubuntu Linux desktop very well, for example, you can propose a framework for a script for a course that introduces teh Ubuntu Linux desktop. You need to define target audience, provide an outline of what you would like to include in the course, linear and/or interactive elements. You can go ahead and write a complete script if you like, or yo can use the to-be-established proposal-review process of this community to comment on your proposal. If the project is a larger one, let's say you want to produce a complete Linux course, you can use this process to find other members to joing you in a sub-group for just this project.
Job – Content Developer
You should have fun creating content, especially multimedia content. You should also be familiar with basic web technologies such as HTML, CSS, Javascript and/or Flash and Actionscript.
Content developers take the scripts created by content creators and turn them into a multimedia piece. They don't need to know the subject of the course itself very well, since the script tells them exactly what is needed. If the script is not clear enough content developers ask the author(s) of the script(s).
Description
Marketing supports sales. Marketing is responsible for identifying markets to target, and by creating a strategy for the identified markets. Marketing should be ruled by facts and figures: how much money was spent, how many visits on our webpages did a certain action produce, which pages were viewed, how many people returned, how many left immediately, how many people attended the local shows and at what cost was it done, etc.
PR is responsible for increasing awareness of our goals. For example, PR produces blogs or gets well-known bloggers to write about our project, or get articles for the project into online- or print media. PR also participates in discussion forums to spread the word about us – without getting to a level where it could be called spamming.
Description
Designers are needed for print (a magazine is planned as part of this project), web and for course content of course. Individuals who show outstanding abilities in the field of design are invited to join us.
However, the focus of Letexa designers should NOT be on producing a colorful look, as is standard today almost everywhere, but be more oriented towards usability and function. For example, most websites and marketing material today seems professional – but it completely fails to get a users attention. Google design is an example of what we are after.
Description
No explanation yet, these positions are not yet needed without any income...
Description
Development develops the web-based collaboration infrastructure for this community. Development also creates the infrastructure for the multimedia courses. The features to implement are selected in a community process.
Development also assists the content creators.
Description
Translators are responsible for maintaining a version of the website itself and of the content in their target language.
Introduction
There is nothing to sell today, but if development, PR and marketing do a good enough job we will have reached the threshold for amount and quality of content and visits on the webpage to start the sales process.
Description
Sales people sell
- content created by the members of the community
- the service to create content
- ad-space in content whose owners choose to allow this source of income
- ad-space on the website, if the community decides to sell such space