as some of you have noticed I've been conspicuously absent from the channel
for a while now since PAX East for videos on our channel that aren't the
WAN Show or don't involve everyone in the company lonus has hosted 22 of them
and I have hosted a grand total of two
am I getting fired am I getting phased out in favor of clickbait topics and
crazy thumbnails I've been reading your comments and I do appreciate your
concern and kind words but no oh nothing dramatic I have been voluntarily
reacomodo plane and I want you to join me so what the heck is Floatplane well
I'll answer that question but first a seemingly unrelated broader statement
the trend today is for social platforms to grow user count at all costs This Is
How They attract online creators and build loyalty to their platform it makes
sense the problem with this model for creators is that this loyalty is pretty
much a gun to the head that says abandon us and you'll lose everything that you
worked for as a Creator losing your platform is like losing your job in a
field where people are often self-employed covering their own costs
for things like medical insurance that's a scary Prospect the problem for the
audience is that social platforms usually have their own agenda with
respect to Big Data which is a deeper conversation for another time these
things motivate them to make changes to their algorithm that can benefit the
service but harm the viewer Creator relationship like delivering trending
videos to an activity feed rather than the content that was actively followed
or subscribe to or in another more topical example they might just up and
turn off monetization because their advertising partners aren't fans of a
particular style of content fair or not this pulls the rug out from under
creators feet so in the short term our goal with Floatplane is very simple
we're going to take over the Galaxy or
failing the that will build a platform for online content creators to deliver
their content directly to their audiences without the restrictions
imposed by traditional services in the long term however Floatplane media's
more General mission is to develop really cool tools to reduce online
creators dependence on a single social platform and give them more time and
resources to create while enriching the
experience for their loyal communities with stable elegant apps it's win-win so
even if it doesn't soar it probably won't sink cuz it's a Floatplane for
the past few months we've had a pre-alpha riding on the back of our
Forum with Early Access streaming downloading mostly working and the CMS
and transcoding systems hobbling along but that's not the kind of futureproof
solution that we ultimately want and that's where you come in the true
version of our metaphorical Floatplane needs a lot more work before we can
start showing it off to the pilots we need another software engineer or
computer scientist to join the team and help us make magic this will involve
brainstorming creative and innovative ways to tackle the Myriad of issues that
come with developing this type of platform communicating with our team of
two Canadians on each end of the country some guy in the UK another dude in
Sweden and possibly even someone hanging out in Belgium extensive documentation
and commenting practices to make it possible for others to work on the code
that you write in the future and coordinating with our team members to
make sure that what we're building will actually function at the end of the day
and More in terms of the requirements we have for your abilities you need to have
strong node.js JavaScript and websocket skills along with professional software
development experience the more the better we don't require a degree or
piece of paper that says that you know how to code but you must roughly have
the equivalent coding knowledge of a postsecondary graduate how you got it is
your business for bonus points it would be great to have experience working in
Agile development teams experience working on complex multi-layer
applications and microservices experience with web transcoding and a
passion for interactive media modern web content creations and building
communities we're mainly recruiting for a developer that can do server client
relationship handling in node but as a software engineer at Floatplane media
you will be modifying and hacking additional functionality into
pre-existing systems and creating some new ones from scratch some of the many
things you may be working on include the video Distribution Systems both for
downloading and streaming the comments and chat systems tools for creators to
manage and improve their pages and interact with their audiences elegant
highly available web services to support our front-end platform front-end web
engineering that is functional beautiful and has a premium feel applications for
one of the many non-web platforms that we do plan to support in the future
including iOS Android consoles and more
agile tools for internal or external use that let us support our customers and
partners for a better overall experience for everyone and lots more features that
we haven't thought of yet so after all that if you're interested there's a
Google form linked under the video that I'd like everyone to fill out before
going any further after we spend spend some time collecting those successfully
completed forms there will be further instructions that will include where to
send a resume cover letter and portfolio
along with the details of a timed coding challenge that we will be holding which
I think will be a fun way to help you stand out from the crowd if you want to
be on the ground floor of making something awesome that people will
actually use and enjoy I would encourage you to join me and together we can rule
the galaxy as father and son or possibly
daughter