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What is your intended time frame for staying in Auroville? How many months? Which time of the year?
Granted you like Blue Light do you envision to work the full time with us?
Do you speak English? In Auroville almost all communication is in English.
Can you support yourself financially during your stay in Auroville? We recommend for volunteers between 8000 and 10 000 INR (Indian Rupees) which equivalents to 120 - 150 Euros or 190 - 230 US$ per month (Exchange rate 68 Rs per Euro or 43 Rs per US$). This amount can vary depending on your life style. You will need this money for accommodation, transport, food etc.
Are you the person we are looking for?
We are looking for computer savvy people - for geeks, geeks-in-the-making, open source enthusiasts or other computer literate beingscomputer savvy people. Blue Light provides you with an office environment and if you don't come with your laptop with - with a computerworkstation. We have quite a mixed bunch of people around so that we learn from each other.
Depending on the project a at least 3 to 6 months of commitment is expected from you. We are also looking for Python programmers to create software that helps Auroville.
Part of the job is to get into contact with meet Aurovilians. This is a great way to dive deeper into Auroville, how it works, how what daily life looks like ...
We are using as much Open Source software as wherever and whenever possible. This means researching Open Source projects, installing software on test computers, getting in contact with the developers or the community if needed and finally introduce it introducing solutions into working environments (offices) and train usersproviding user training.
We require proper documentation of what you do here since you are not staying with us forever (... who knows 
)your work so it's possible for others to get involved.
Our Projects
If you have Linux server administration skills ...
Well, almost all is welcome here. If you know how to secure a server or automate task via scripting, virtualisation, MySQL/PostgresSQL database ......
If you know how to program
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We would like to use a couple of are working on web-based software in our community. For solutions for our community needs. One of them is based on http://www.tryton.org (true OpenSource fork of not-so-open-any-more OpenERP). For further details please contact us.
If you know how to teach or train or have skills to develop training materials
If you like teaching (in English) to adults or teenagers check in with us. Whether you teach Libreoffice (text formatting or spreadsheets) or proper emailing or offer to introduce the community in fields like online social networking, Internet in general and security and privacy in particular - all this and much more is interesting for us.
If you have skills in the following software and could configure, optimise or train people
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Do you know Drupal CMS? Auronet is our internal community platform and Drupal based.
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Or are you an OpenOffice or LibreOffice expert? We are in the process to introduce LibreOffice in introducing Ubuntu Linux and LibreOffice to our community and its offices. If you have skills you could share them either in solving problems or in training on et one or in a small class. In Auroville almost all communication is in English.people.
We are also using GNU-Cash for accounting.
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If your skills are not mentioned here or not worth to mention at all
, please contact us and check in. We might still have a place for you..