A friend of mine has a client who’s interested in paying a programmer to put together a genealogy website ala Beyond (as described in these blog posts). I’m too busy with other projects, however, and so I thought I’d cast out the net and see if any of y’all are interested.

Spec-wise, the client wants a web app where users can upload their PAF/GEDCOM files and collaborate. They also want it to be able to generate a number of different charts. (I’m sure there are probably a few other things they want, but these seem to be the core, driving necessities.) Timeframe is 4-6 months and the salary is negotiable (based on experience — and of course you’ll need to be quite experienced since this isn’t a kiddy project). Beyond that, and I say this in all humility :), you’ll need to resonate with a lot of the ideas here on this blog. (In other words, they’re looking for something like Beyond.) It would help if you live in or near Salt Lake City, Utah, but that’s not an absolute necessity.

So, if you’re interested, send me an e-mail (my address is in the sidebar) and I’ll pass your contact information on to them. I’m not really affiliated with them and so I can’t answer any questions beyond what I’ve said here, but I hope somebody’s interested and ends up writing a really cool web app. :)

A couple of weeks ago I came across Family Wheel, Buck DeFore’s ActionScript-based genealogy app:

You can read more about it on the project page. Quite an interesting visualization technique (meaning, as the main “pedigree” of the app; circle charts have been around for ages, but they’ve always been something you printed, not something you worked on directly). The app is fairly simple, too, which is nice.

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