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as some of you have noticed I've been conspicuously absent from the channel

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for a while now since PAX East for videos on our channel that aren't the

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WAN Show or don't involve everyone in the company lonus has hosted 22 of them

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and I have hosted a grand total of two

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am I getting fired am I getting phased out in favor of clickbait topics and

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crazy thumbnails I've been reading your comments and I do appreciate your

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concern and kind words but no oh nothing dramatic I have been voluntarily

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reacomodo plane and I want you to join me so what the heck is Floatplane well

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I'll answer that question but first a seemingly unrelated broader statement

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the trend today is for social platforms to grow user count at all costs This Is

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How They attract online creators and build loyalty to their platform it makes

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sense the problem with this model for creators is that this loyalty is pretty

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much a gun to the head that says abandon us and you'll lose everything that you

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worked for as a Creator losing your platform is like losing your job in a

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field where people are often self-employed covering their own costs

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for things like medical insurance that's a scary Prospect the problem for the

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audience is that social platforms usually have their own agenda with

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respect to Big Data which is a deeper conversation for another time these

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things motivate them to make changes to their algorithm that can benefit the

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service but harm the viewer Creator relationship like delivering trending

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videos to an activity feed rather than the content that was actively followed

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or subscribe to or in another more topical example they might just up and

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turn off monetization because their advertising partners aren't fans of a

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particular style of content fair or not this pulls the rug out from under

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creators feet so in the short term our goal with Floatplane is very simple

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we're going to take over the Galaxy or

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failing the that will build a platform for online content creators to deliver

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their content directly to their audiences without the restrictions

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imposed by traditional services in the long term however Floatplane media's

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more General mission is to develop really cool tools to reduce online

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creators dependence on a single social platform and give them more time and

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resources to create while enriching the

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experience for their loyal communities with stable elegant apps it's win-win so

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even if it doesn't soar it probably won't sink cuz it's a Floatplane for

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the past few months we've had a pre-alpha riding on the back of our

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Forum with Early Access streaming downloading mostly working and the CMS

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and transcoding systems hobbling along but that's not the kind of futureproof

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solution that we ultimately want and that's where you come in the true

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version of our metaphorical Floatplane needs a lot more work before we can

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start showing it off to the pilots we need another software engineer or

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computer scientist to join the team and help us make magic this will involve

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brainstorming creative and innovative ways to tackle the Myriad of issues that

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come with developing this type of platform communicating with our team of

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two Canadians on each end of the country some guy in the UK another dude in

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Sweden and possibly even someone hanging out in Belgium extensive documentation

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and commenting practices to make it possible for others to work on the code

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that you write in the future and coordinating with our team members to

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make sure that what we're building will actually function at the end of the day

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and More in terms of the requirements we have for your abilities you need to have

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strong node.js JavaScript and websocket skills along with professional software

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development experience the more the better we don't require a degree or

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piece of paper that says that you know how to code but you must roughly have

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the equivalent coding knowledge of a postsecondary graduate how you got it is

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your business for bonus points it would be great to have experience working in

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Agile development teams experience working on complex multi-layer

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applications and microservices experience with web transcoding and a

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passion for interactive media modern web content creations and building

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communities we're mainly recruiting for a developer that can do server client

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relationship handling in node but as a software engineer at Floatplane media

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you will be modifying and hacking additional functionality into

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pre-existing systems and creating some new ones from scratch some of the many

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things you may be working on include the video Distribution Systems both for

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downloading and streaming the comments and chat systems tools for creators to

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manage and improve their pages and interact with their audiences elegant

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highly available web services to support our front-end platform front-end web

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engineering that is functional beautiful and has a premium feel applications for

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one of the many non-web platforms that we do plan to support in the future

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including iOS Android consoles and more

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agile tools for internal or external use that let us support our customers and

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partners for a better overall experience for everyone and lots more features that

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we haven't thought of yet so after all that if you're interested there's a

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Google form linked under the video that I'd like everyone to fill out before

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going any further after we spend spend some time collecting those successfully

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completed forms there will be further instructions that will include where to

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send a resume cover letter and portfolio

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along with the details of a timed coding challenge that we will be holding which

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I think will be a fun way to help you stand out from the crowd if you want to

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be on the ground floor of making something awesome that people will

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actually use and enjoy I would encourage you to join me and together we can rule

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the galaxy as father and son or possibly

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daughter