I am leading the development of an overall open source + commercial
business intelligence offering at JasperSoft, leveraging the leading
open source reporting engine, JasperReports and the report designer,
iReport. As part of the offering, we are looking to push the Mondrian
Java ROLAP server along its roadmap by actively contributing, so I am
looking for someone who can roll up their sleeves and help push
Mondrian to new heights.

For those who don't know Mondrian....

Mondrian is the only open source ROLAP server written in Java. It uses
MDX and can connect to just about any RDBMS you can think of. The
recent 2.0 release includes the automated use of aggregate tables to
boost performance and XML/A interface improvements. Further performance
advances are in the works. There are a number of projects using
Mondrian now - BIOLAP, CompiereBI, Pentaho, SpagoBI - and firms are
embedding it. I am hearing folks testing out Mondrian against 1TB level
databases. Mondrian is consistently in the top 500 of most active
projects on SourceForge and downloads have been steadily rising.

Check out http://mondrian.sourceforge.net, particularly the Roadmap
link.


Aspects of the work will include:

* Participation in the Mondrian and JasperSoft related communities -
forums, roadmap development

* Helping JasperSoft support customers and partners take on the
offerings

* Advice in the use of Mondrian: multi-dimensional models, performance,
integration

* Tier 3 technical support: you only answer the phone if no one else in
support can help

I have been a user and contributor on Mondrian and the related JPivot
OLAP UI for over 2 years, and your initial code contributions would go
through me until we get you established in the project. I have been
with JasperSoft for a short time, but I have known the folks here for a
while from other open source projects I have been involved with, like
Bizgres. I think the most gratifying aspect of JasperSoft is the direct
connections they have with leading open source projects and companies,
like SugarCRM and MySQL, and they have a mature, worldwide partner
program + a sales and support organization, built from the pre-existing
commercial JasperDecisions/Panscopic server.

Because of all the open source work, we are happy with working remotely
- JasperSoft is based in downtown San Francisco and is very
multi-cultural, we use offshore folks in India, one of our lead
developers is in Australia, our JasperReports team is in Bucharest and
the iReport lead is in Italy. The main criteria will be: are you right
for the role?

I don't think there will be much, if any travel, apart from checking in
with the mother ship at various times - our lead in Australia comes to
SF quarterly.

Cheers!


Sherman Wood
Director, Business Intelligence
JasperSoft
swood (at) jaspersoft.com