-*- 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@prep.ai.mit.edu ** Please keep the entries in this file alphabetical **  Joseph Arceneaux PO Box 460633 San Francisco, CA 94146-0633 +1 415 285 9088 Former FSF staffmember. Performed X11 implementation of Emacs version 19 and worked on WYSIWYG Emacs. Installed and administered FSF network. Maintainer of GNU indent. Over 10 years experience with Unix 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. Rates are upwards of $70 USD per hour, depending upon the particular job. I am also very interested in fixed-bid jobs. For selected non-profit organizations with worthy goals, I work for free. Updated: 5Apr94  Gerd Aschemann Herderstr. 15 D-64285 Darmstadt Tel.: +49 6151 62568 - System Administrator (UNIX) of Operating Systems Research Group, CS Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany - Consultant for other UNIX users at TU Darmstadt - 14 years experience with CS, Systemadministration - 7 years with UNIX/Networking/FreeWare/GNU/X11 - 5 years organizer of practical OS courses - Platforms: SunOS, HP-UX, Ultrix, OSF1, Linux, AIX, Solaris - Experience with parallel environments (Transputers: Meiko, Parix) Rates are at 100,-- DM (~60 US$) per hour minimum, depending on the job. I am willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs. Entered: 10Jun94  Giuseppe Attardi Dipartimento di Informatica Corso Italia 40 I-56125 Pisa, Italy +39 50 887-244 GNU: help on obtaininig GNU, for italian sites. Updated: 5Apr94  James Craig Burley 4 Mountain Gate Rd. Ashland, MA 01721-2326 508 881-6087, -4745 Email: --preferred-- Expertise: Compiler Internals (author of GNU Fortran, for example) Operating Systems Internals (lately Linux on the ix86) 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: $75/hour, though somewhat volatile due to commitments regarding GNU Fortran -- willing to consider flat-fee arrangements Entered: 5Apr94  Michael I. Bushnell 545 Technology Square, NE43-426 Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-8568 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 organizaions. Updated: 5Apr94  C2V Renaud Dumeur 82 bd Haussmann Michel Delval 75009 Paris Jean-Alain Le Borgne France Tel (1) 40.08.07.07 Fax (1) 43.87.35.99 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 st18950 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. Entered: 5May94  Contributed Software Graefestr. 76 10967 Berlin, Germany phone: (+49 30) 694 69 07 FAX: (+49 30) 694 68 09 modems: (+49 30) 694 60 55 (5xZyXEL ) modems: (+49 30) 693 40 51 (8xUSR DS) email: internet: uropax.contrib.de [192.109.39.2], login as 'guest'. We distribute, install, port, teach and support free software in general, i.e. X11, GNU, khoros etc. Rates are ECU 80,-- plus tax per hour. We offer maintenance and support contracts for full customer satisfaction. Highlights are transparent development environments for multi-platform sites and configuration management. Traveling is no problem. Free Archive login for downloading on above modem numbers. Updated: 5Apr94  Stuart Cracraft 25682 Cresta Loma Laguna Niguel, Ca. 92677 GNUline: 714-347-8106 Rate: $75/hour Consultation topics: Entire GNU suite - porting, compilation, installation, user-training, administrator-training Method: telephone line support, call-in via modem to your site, or direct visit. Experience: supporting GNU since the mid-1980's, coordinator of GNU Chess (original author), GNU Shogi, GNU Go. Ported GNU Emacs to Solaris (System V Release 4). Expertise in C, Emacs Lisp, and Perl. Customized programming also available. Entered: 5Apr94  Cygnus Support 1937 Landings Drive ...uunet!cygint!info Mountain View, CA 94043 USA +1 415 903 1400 voice +1 415 903 0122 fax Cygnus Support 48 Grove Street Somerville, MA 02144 +1 617 629 3000 voice +1 617 629 3010 fax Cygnus Support continues to provide supported, maintained versions of the GNU toolset including GCC, G++, the GNU debugger with graphical user interface, GNU linker, GNU macro-assembler and Emacs 19. In keeping with the rapidly advancing needs of software developers, Cygnus maintains a 90 day release cycle of the GNU toolset. Each release is regression tested and includes substantial improvements and additions to the existing matrix of over 65 supported platform configurations. Updated: 2Feb95  Jose A. Fernandez WORK: Inference Corporation HOME: 550 N. Continental Blvd. 1025 Hillside Dr. El Segundo, CA 90245 Chino Hills, CA 91709 (310) 322-0200 x205 (714) 528-2523 RATES: Variable, depending on work to be done. SERVICES: GNU software: installation, troubleshooting, and instruction. X11 software: installation and troubleshooting. Entered: 14Apr94  Free Software Association of Germany Michaela Merz Heimatring 19 6000 Frankfurt/Main 70 phone: (+49 69) 6312083) ert : (+49-172-6987246) email: (info@elara.fsag.de) Supporting all kinds of freeware (i.e. GNU), freeware development, consulting, training, installation. Special LINUX support group. RATES: Companies and for profit organizations : 100 US$ / hour Private and not-for-profit organizations : 40 US$ / hour ert (24h Emergency response team) : 300 US$ / hour Entered: 14Apr94  Noah Friedman Building 600, Suite 214 One Kendall Square Cambridge, MA 02139 +1 617 876 3296 Co-maintainer of GNU texinfo and GNU autoconf. Author of several Emacs Lisp packages and parts of Emacs 19, as well as numerous utilities written in shell script and perl. System administrator for a small network of heterogenous machines. FSF employee spring 1991 to the present. Installation, porting, and enhancement of all GNU software and other free software; "auto-configuration" a specialty. System administration for most unix-like systems. Willing to teach shell programming and Emacs Lisp. Fees negotiable. I can work in the Boston area or anywhere on the Internet. For larger jobs I may be willing to travel. Updated: 5Apr94  Ron Guilmette 396 Ano Nuevo Ave. #216 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 408-732-7839 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: 11+ years UNIX systems experience, all working on compilers and related tools. 5+ 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 degree, both in Computer Science. Rates: Variable depending upon contract duration. Call for quote. Updated: 13Apr94  Hundred Acre Consulting 1155 W Fourth St Ste 225 PO Box 6209 Reno NV 89513-6209 (702)-348-7299 Hundred Acre is a consulting group providing support and development services to organizations of all sizes. We support GNU C++ and C in particular, but also provide support for all other GNU software and certain non-GNU public domain software as well. We work on a "service contract" basis for support -- for a yearly fee, we provide multiple levels of email and toll free telephone support, and free updates and bug fixes. The highersupport levels have on-site support. Development is charged on either an hourly or fixed bid basis. Consulting rates: $70 to $90 per hour, or fixed bid. Support contracts: Several levels, from $495 to $90000 per year. Updated: 27Dec94  Scott D. Kalter : Dennis Fitzgerald 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 $200 per hour. Entered: 13Jan95  Scott J. Kramer P.O. Box 620207 Woodside, CA 94062 +1 415-941-0755 GNU Software: Tutoring, installations/upgrades, Emacs Lisp customizations, general troubleshooting/support. Prefer that work I do becomes part integrated into official Free Software Foundation distributions. Systems Administration: Sun (SunOS & Solaris) and SGI (IRIX) UNIX hardware/software platforms. Rate: Task- and time-dependent; non-monetary offers accepted. Updated: 12Apr94  Fen Labalme Services: Supply, porting, installation, consultation on all GNU products. Experience: 20 years OS and compiler experience, portations of most GNU products. Author of ported software CD-ROM for Unix 4.2. Rates: Choice of DM 150 per hour or hotline rates 3 DM per minute + 10 DM per phone call. Quick questions may be free. Limited free support available for purchasers of LEMIS CD-ROMs. Updated: 21Feb95  Marty Leisner 332 Shaftsbury Road Rochester, New York 14610 Home:(716) 654-7931 Experience: 12 years C/Unix, 7 years DOS. Extensive experience with GNU binary tools, cross-compilers, embedded/hosted systems, realtime. Degree : BS CS, Cornell University Rates: $75/hr marty Updated: 15Apr94  Richard Levitte (in TeX: Richard Levitte Södra Långgatan 39, II S\"odra L{\aa}nggatan 39, II S-171 49 Solna S-171 49 Solna Sweden Sweden) Tel.nr.: +46 (8) 18 30 99 (there is an answering machine) e-mail: (preferred) What I do: Primarly I work on GNU software for VMS, both VAX and AXP. I also work on GNU stuff for Unix on occasion. I'm familiar with SunOS (version 4.x.x), BSD (version 4.2 and up), Ultrix (version 4.2 and up). I've been porting GNU Emacs to VMS since spring 1991. This includes versions 18.57 to 18.59 and version 19.22. I maintain GNU vmslib. Programs supported: GNU vmslib: extending, installation, upgrading aid, simple and complex questions, you name it. GNU Emacs: porting, extending, installation, upgrading aid, customization, simple or complex questions, training, you name it. GNU autoconf: porting, extending, installation, upgrading aid. GNU zip, diffutils, m4, patch, texinfo: porting, installation, upgrading aid. GNU C/C++: installation, upgrading aid. I might start to hack at it some day. The list of programs I currently support represents both my interests and current priorities. Your interest and funding can influence my priorities. Experience: Fluent in C, C++, Emacs Lisp, Pascal as well as assembler on VAX, Motorola 680x0, Intel 8086 and 80x86. 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, as well as MS-DOS and IBM PC compatibles. I have worked for four and a half years as a VMS system manager. I've also provided consulting services on IBM PC compatibles, as well as held classes for IBM PC users. A reference list is available on request. Your Rate: $50-$80/hour (400-700 SEK in sweden), plus expenses. My rates are negotiable, depending on how interesting the project is to me. Entered: 18Aug94  Roland McGrath 545 Tech Sq, Rm 426 Cambridge, MA 02139 Work: (617) 253-8568 Co-author of GNU Make (with Richard Stallman); maintainer of GNU Make. Author and maintainer of the GNU C Library and co-author of the GNU Hurd. Author of several GNU Emacs Lisp packages and parts of GNU Emacs 19. FSF employee summer 1989, fall 1990 to the present. Installation, maintenance, porting, enhancement of all GNU software. I can install GNU software and maintain its installation on call via the Internet. Fees negotiable; $75-$100/hour, higher for very short term projects. I can work anywhere in the Boston or SF Bay Area, or anywhere on the Internet. I am working full-time for the FSF on the GNU Hurd, so I am likely to take on only jobs that either can be done entirely via the Internet and are short-term, or that are very interesting. Updated: 21Jan95  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: 14Apr94  Signum Support AB Box 2044 _ ...!seunet!signum!info S-580 02 Linkoping, Sweden +46 13 21 46 00 voice +46 13 21 47 00 fax Signum Support AB is a company dedicated to supporting, developing and distributing free software for, including but not limited to, UNIX systems. The people behind Signum Support AB have many years of general UNIX experience, both as system administrators and as programmers, and also extensive experience in maintaining the GNU programs, both administrating it and 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. - Warranty protection. - Customization and porting. - Subscriptions to new versions which we will send monthly or with any other interval. - Finding, Recommending and Investigation of free software in any area of the customers choise. - Regular consulting. Rates: For software items, request our price list. For consulting, 400-800 SEK/hour. Updated: 14Apr94  Small Business Systems, Inc. Box 17220, Route 104 Esmond, RI 02917 401.273.4669 Rate: Varies depending on complexity of task. Hourly and fixed-rate contracts are available. Programs Supported: All Updated: 14Apr94  Julian H. Stacey. Vector Systems Ltd, Holz Strasse 27d, D 80469 Munich (Muenchen), GERMANY. Tel. +49 89 268616 (089 268616 in Germany) 09:00-21:00 Timezone=GMT+01:00 Sources: All FSF/GNU, FreeBSD-current, X-Windows, XFree86, NetBSD, Mach, etc. (Plus various other things, such as, but not limited to: blas blt cflow CAD cnews crypt dvi2lj eispack elm encryption expect ezd f2c flexfax gic gopher info-zip ingres inn jpeg kermit ksh less lha linpack md5 mh mprof mtools mush nntp octave pbmplus popper sather sc schemetoc slurp sml spreadsheet sup tcl tcl-dp tcsh tcx term tex tiff tk top trn unarj ups urt wine xlock xv xview xxgdb zmodem zip zircon zoo zsh.) Media: QIC 1/4" Cartridge 525M, 150M, & 60M, TEAC CAS-60 60M Cassette, CD-ROM, Floppies 1.4M & 1.2 & 720K & 360K. DAT arrangeable. Postal Service C.O.D.(=`Nachnahme') or pre payment available. Commercial Consultancy: Custom Designs, Provision & support of FreeBSD or Unix, C, FSF tools, X Windows, own tools, systems engineering, hardware interfacing, multi lingual European, Cyrillic & Chinese tools & systems, Unix, MSDOS, real time etc, communications & scientific & industrial. DEUTSCH + FRANCAIS: Man kann mir in Deutsch schreiben, (oder mich anrufen). Je comprend Francais, mais je n'ecris pas des responses en Francais. (Contact me in English, German, or French). FREE for Symmetric Computer Systems Model 375 owners: Free Binaries & sources on SCS/375's TEAC 50/60M Cassette, for: GCC-1.40, UUCP-1.4, Ghostscript 2.3, Tar-1.08, Gzip-1.2.2 etc. (Native SCS compiler can't compile GCC on this NSC32016 based BSD4.2) On Request: Resume, Company Profile, Index of public & proprietary tools, Rate: ~120 DM/hour. ~100DM/Cartridge. (1.5DM = $1 USA = 0.6 UK Pounds @4/'94) Short enquiries free. (Kurze Anfragen Ohne Gebuhr). Updated: 14Jun94  Richard M. Stallman UUCP: {mit-eddie,ucbvax,uunet,harvard,uw-beaver}!ai.mit.edu!rms 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: 14Apr94  JoS-Ware Comp Tech Johan Svensson Box 739 220 07 LUND SWEDEN Tel +46-46-104505 (Dept. of Economics, University of LUND) Fax +46-46-188445 (JoS-Ware Comp Tech) What: We offer consulting services regarding installation, customization, troubleshooting, porting and integration of all free software, including GNU software. Spec.: Network integration, integration of public domain software into commercial systems, WorldWideWeb, C, X-Windows, Linux, networked information systems How: Remote login over internet, email, modem, phone, personal visits (in southern Sweden mainly) Rates: 550SEK (+ tax) per hour within Sweden 370SEK (+ tax) per hour within Sweden for educational org. US $90 per hour outside Sweden US $70 per hour outside Sweden for educational org. Note: fees may vary and special arrangements may be considered Entered: 7Apr94  Kayvan Sylvan Sylvan Associates 879 Lewiston Drive San Jose, CA 95136 Phone: 408-978-1407 I will help you port, install and customize GNU Emacs, GCC, G++, bison, and other GNU tools on almost any architechture 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: $60-$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, SVR3 and SVR4, Linux, Xenix). Systems programming and system administration on all brands of Unix. Kernel hacking experience. Lots of porting experience. I can port anything to anything (within reason). Updated: 14Apr94  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: 100.00/hour + travel expenses. Negotiable for non-profits. Experience: Have hacked on over a dozen architectures in many languages. Have system mothered several varieties of Unixes. Assisted rms with the front end of gcc and it's back-end support. Resume available on request. Entered: 14Apr94  UrbanSoft AO 68 Malooktinskii Prospect St. Petersburg, Russia 195272 Custom GhostScript and TeX programming by e-mail. Database documents, directories, standard forms. UrbanSoft uses a portion of its revenues to contribute diskette distributions of GNU software to Russian universities (most of which lack FTP access). Rates: 30,000 rubles (currently USD 16.80) per hour. Fixed rate contracts also possible. Payable by bank transfer. Updated: 20Apr94  noris network Matthias Urlichs Schleiermacherstrasse 12 90491 Nuernberg Germany Phone: +49 911 9959621 Fax: +49 911 5980150 http://info.noris.de/ (German) Expertise: OS internals, esp. Linux and BSD, esp. device drivers Network protocol / program design and coding Utilities coding and maintainance 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 110 (~$70) per hour Support contracts start at DM 170/month + DM 30/supported system. Willing to travel for sufficiently large jobs. Rates don't include taxes. Entered: 16Aug94  Joe Wells Postal Address: care of: Boston University Computer Science Department 111 Cummington Street, Room 138 Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Work Telephone: (617) 353-3381 (sorry, but no answering machine or voice mail) Home Telephone: (617) 739-7456 (until August 1995) Finger "jbw@cs.bu.edu" for up-to-date contact information. Experience: I have B.A. and M.A. degrees in Computer Science and have completed all but the dissertation for a Ph.D. in C.S. My research for my Ph.D. is in the areas of logic, type systems, and programming language theory. My primary programming languages are Emacs Lisp, Perl, and Bourne shell, but of course I can program in any language. I have written numerous Emacs Lisp packages. I started the USENET "List of Frequently Asked Questions about GNU Emacs with Answers" and maintained it for more than two years. Most of my work has been related to the telephone system (modems, voice mail, etc.), but I am not limited to that. Send e-mail for my complete resume or curriculum vita. Programs supported: GNU Emacs and Taylor UUCP: Installation, training, customization, bug fixing, troubleshooting, extension, development, porting, or answering any kind of question. Any other GNU program: The same things, but I don't necessarily have huge amounts of experience with the particular program. Working conditions: I am usually available for part-time work (less than 20 hours per week including any travel time). I can sometimes make time for full-time work for a month or two; please inquire. I can either work in or near Boston or via the Internet or via telephone; travel outside the Boston metropolitan area can be negotiated. My schedule is very flexible. Any programs I write will normally have the copying conditions of the GNU General Public License; this is negotiable. Rates: $65/hour as an independent contractor. travel and telephone expenses. higher rates if extensive travel is required. Updated: 27Sep94.  Yggdrasil Computing, Inc./ Freesoft, Inc. 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd. Ste. 205 San Jose, CA 95129 (408) 261-6630 (800) 261 6630 Updated: 14Apr94  For a current copy of this directory, or to have yourself listed, ask: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu ** Please keep the entries in this file alphabetical **