GNU Service Directory This is a list of people who have asked to be listed as offering support services for GNU software, including GNU Emacs, for a fee. The information comes from the people who asked to be listed; we do not include any information we know to be false, but we cannot check out any of the information; we are transmitting it to you as it was given to us and do not promise it is correct. Also, this is not an endorsement of the people listed here. We have no opinions and usually no information about the abilities of any specific person. We provide this list to enable you to contact service providers and decide for yourself whether to hire one.  Giuseppe Attardi Dipartimento di Informatica Corso Italia 40 I-56100 Pisa, ITALY +39 (50) 40862 Emacs: installation aid, question answering Rates: Free Entered 3/25/86  Stuart Cracraft UUCP: berkeley!cracraft%isi-vaxa.isi.edu 70923 Fairway Drive Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 (619) 324-9489, weekends (213) 822-1511. Emacs: questions answered, teaching, customization, troubleshooting, but not porting. Rates: $30/hr short term, $15/hr long term. EXPERIENCE: software researcher, systems programmer, Unix analyst formerly with Stanford Research Institute, now with USC Information Sciences Institute. DEGREE: B.A. Behavioral Sciences, National University Entered: 1/25/86  Dario Dariol DELPHI SpA via della Vetraia 11 I-55049 Viareggio Italy +39 (584) 395161 Rates and range of services not received. Entered: 3/25/86  Bruce Eckel ARPA: fluke!morgan@uw-beaver UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb6, lbl-csam}!fluke!morgan c/o John Fluke Mfg. Co., P.O. Box C9090 M/S 266D Everett, WA 98206 (206) 356-6258 Emacs: Training, Programming custom LISP functions. Rates: $25/hr. Credentials: BS Applied Physics, MS Computer Engineering. Entered: 1/23/86  Dennis Gentry BITNET: dennis@uwachem.bitnet Optimal Solutions P.O. Box 25816 Seattle, WA 98125 (206) 547-1864 Emacs: questions answered, teaching, customization, troubleshooting, porting. Rates: $60/hr, 20 minute free initial consultation EXPERIENCE: System management, consulting at: the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the National Science Foundation's Center for Process Analytical Chemistry, Global Technology International, others. DEGREE: Honors B.S. Comp Sci, University of Washington Entered: 5 March 1987  Stephen Gildea 42 Carleton St Cambridge MA 02142 +1 617 253 7866 Emacs: question answering, library writing, etc. Rates: $60/hr. Entered: 11/04/86  Jacob Levy Dept of Computer Science Weizmann Institute Rehovot 76100 Israel (+972)-8-482856 Services - Electronic, snail-mail and phone help with installation of GNU Emacs. Will hand out on request source and local mods for GNU Emacs, as they become available. Willing to help to maintain compatibility with other/previous versions of Emacs, such as Gosling, CCA and MicroEmacs. Preferable contact - through elec- tronic mail via BITNET. Rates - Free. Will only help as much as possible, not conflicting with my main occupation in life, that of obtaining a Ph.D.  Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo 1667 Cambridge St. #1 Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 864-2312, (617) 470-2853, (617) 253-1300 Services offered: Terminal Capability Hacking (including mouses) for GnuEmacs, Teaching GnuEmacs (including Lisp), Custom Libraries, and Porting Fee: ~$40/hr. depending upon assignment. Resume available upon request. Entered: 2/22/86  The Nice Computer Company of Australia Pty Ltd 36 Parliament Place Perth 6000 Western Australia +61(9)321-6636 Sydney office planned. Emacs assistance by telephone; media conversion; distributes tapes locally on behalf of the Free Software Foundation. Rates: ask. For tapes, rates are the same as the Foundation and the profits go to the Foundation. Entered: 5/5/86  Scott J. Kramer 2995 Woodside Road, Suite 400 Woodside CA 94062 Emacs: Tutoring, installations/upgrades, Lisp customizations, general troubleshooting/support. Prefer that work I do becomes part of the official Free Software Foundation distribution. Rate: Task- and time-dependent; non-monetary offers considered. Entered: 11/05/86  Lee McLoughlin Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queens Gate, London. SW7 2BZ 01-589-5111 X 5032 Emacs and Bison: Porting to new machines, installation, troubleshooting, teaching their use at user level and general hand holding. Rate: 200-300 pounds a day, negotiable. I am responsible for putting GNU Emacs up under 4.1 BSD and for the ports to the HLH Orion and the WhiteChapel MG-1. I also developed and support the UK-UUCP and UK news distribution. I am one of the group setting up the UKUUG Software Library (still in progress). I have been an invited speaker at several recent UKUUG meetings. Entered: 11/17/86  Karl A. Nyberg (..!seismo!{decuac,vrdxhq}!grebyn!karl) P. O. Box 1144 Vienna, VA 22180 (703)-281-2194 Emacs: installation aid, training, custom Lisp extensions. Rates: $60/hr, negotiable. I can give you a chance to try out GNU Emacs on a MicroVAX II to see how you like it/my services. I can also use that vax for doing the work you want. MIT '79, VI-A; '81 SM EECS. Entered: 1/30/86  Damon A. Permezel UUCP: ihnp4!terak!dap 6505 E Osborn, #271 Scottsdale, AZ 85251 (602) 947-2218 Consulting on any aspects of GNU. Rates: $40/hr. I have had over 6 years systems programming experience, in UNIX and other operating systems, as well as having written the parser portion for a portable C compiler, worked on the portable code generator, and helped target the code generator for various architectures. In addition, I have designed and written many other programmes. I am offering all levels of technical consultation, for $40/hr for anywhere in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area. Entered: 1/25/86  Hedley K.J. Rainnie UUCP: {seismo|ihnp4|allegra|harvard}!cmcl2!alaya!hedley 545 West End Ave Apt 11E NY NY 10024 (212)-877-0181 (Home) or (212)-807-0303 (Work). Emacs: Rates: $12/hr. I am able to help in all aspects of GNU emacs, even porting. My credentials are: MS in Computer Science from NYU. BS same same. I have used many versions of Emacs since 1980. I ask for $12hr. Entered: 1/23/86  Paul Rubin UUCP: ucbvax!phr 2516 Durant Ave. #73 Berkeley, CA 94704 Emacs: installation, porting, customizing, macro writing, etc. I often have a supply of manuals on hand (normal Foundation single copy prices). Other GNU stuff: ask. Rates: $35/hr, time permitting. I wrote the GNU C preprocessor, most of the Awk interpreter, and various other utilities. I also co-produced (with Bob Chassell) the printed copies of the Emacs manual that the Foundation sells. I maintain Emacs on a gaggle of Vaxen at Berkeley. Entered: 11/13/86  John Sechrest (hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!sechrest) 30606 Petersen Road Corvallis, Oregon 97333 (H) (503) 929-6278 (W) (503) 754-3273 Emacs; User Support ; Tutorials/Training; System Consulting Rates: $50/hr, negotiable. I am willing to help people install and use both Gnu and Emacs. I am particulary interested in installing Gnu on the National ICM- 3216. As a consultant my normal fees are $50/hour. This is mostly a guideline that varies on a case by case basis. I worked at Hewlett-Packard for four years. 2 years working on the HP 41C extended I/O Rom. 2 years working on systems support. For the last year and a half I have worked as the Lab Coordinator for Oregon State University Computer Science coordinating the use and maintenance of several machines. I am most familiar with 4.2BSD on the vax 11/750 and HP-UX on the HP series 200. Entered: 1/31/86  Richard M. Stallman UUCP: {mit-eddie,ucbvax,seismo,harvard,uw-beaver}!rms%prep.ai.mit.edu 545 Tech Sq, rm 703 Cambridge, MA 02139 Emacs: anything whatever Rates: $5/min or $150/hr. Is anyone interested in courses in using or extending GNU Emacs? Original inventor of Emacs and main author of GNU Emacs. Entered: 1/24/86  Earl Stutes <{hplabs,allegra,decwrl,sun}!pyramid!earls> 4188 King Arthur Ct. Palo Alto, CA. 94306 +1 (415) 424 9177 Rate $50.00 hr. negotiable GNU emacs installation / troubleshooting emacs lisp programming. C programming. YACC programming 15 years of programming experience. Working with UNIX for the last 7 years.  Jason Venner San Francisco (415) 642 0514 (work) I am not in a position to take money, but am willing to help with advice, and simple software hacks (c and lisp). Entered: 11/5/86  Scott Weikart (hplabs!cdp!scott) EMACS: user handholding, elisp programming and troubleshooting, porting 1944c University East Palo Alto, CA 94303 (415) 322-9069 I used ITS EMACS for 5 years and Gosling EMACS for 2 years I've written thousands of lines of TECO and thousands of lines of mlisp I've ported many programs to SysIII/SysV Unix Sliding scale rates, barter possible, lower rates for non-profits Entered: 1/30/86