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<p>I've already tweeted this a few times, but I'm pleased to announce that, in partnership with PKP (and subject to finding the right candidate) we have a funded place for an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Lincoln to work on open source software for scholarly XML typesetting.</p>
<p>The University of Lincoln, in association with the Public Knowledge Project, is pleased to offer a funded place for the MSc by Research in Computer Science. The successful candidate will not only have his or her tuition fees covered, but will also receive a £2,500 tax-free bursary.</p>
<p>This funded place is designed to develop an open source tool for typesetting scholarly journal articles [“meTypeset”] that will be incorporated into the widely-used Open Journal Systems software. Building on existing work, the candidate will be expected to spend his or her time researching and developing relevant software engineering techniques to create a piece of production-standard software. The practical project element, structured over 9 months, will form the basis for a Masters-level dissertation piece written over the remaining 3 months.</p>
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Full details of the place <a href="http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/course/cmsresms/fundedplace/">can be found on the university website</a>. We're basically looking for candidates with expertise in:</p>
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<li>XSLT</li>
<li>XML</li>
<li>*nix environments</li>
<li>Python</li>
<li>PHP</li>
<li>Regular expressions</li>
<li>Test-driven development</li>
<li>Regression testing</li>
<li>git</li>
<li>Free/Open source licensing</li>
</ul>
<p>The base for the project ("meTypeset") can be <a href="https://github.com/MartinPaulEve/meTypeset">found over at GitHub</a>.</p>