Collaborative Science Web Developer Needed

We are looking for a developer or development team to help us design and develop the alpha version of a great web application for collaborative research. The base requirements are very simple and mostly come down to writing a nice, easily-extensible database-­run site with a small number of slick Javascript/AJAX features and a Web 2.0 look. Work in your language of choice: we suggest any of Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, Lisp, or Perl, with a Linux/Apache/SQL backend. This will be a high-­traffic web application, so starting with a stock CMS will not be sufficient. We estimate that reaching the alpha stage shouldn't take more than a week or so for a qualified coder or team -- perhaps even less, if you're good. Basic requirements: Easy things like: adding users and projects with varying permissions, listing and sorting projects, marking project milestones, tagging projects, fast and non-clunky interface, clean look (more like [login to view URL] than [login to view URL]). Advanced features (negotiable): Implementation of the above as Javascript- or AJAX-based features (ie, user interaction on basic features is possible without page refreshes), AJAX-run collaborative web notebooks, project tagging Because we're a University-based team, we're happy to consider student applicants. If interested, the designer can share coauthorship with us on the first academic papers we produce on the project and help guide its future direction. ## Deliverables 1) Complete and fully-functional working web application meeting the requirements listed above, including all source code, demo'd to the Buyer's satisfaction. 2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables): For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment. Buyer may demo the application on his own server during the development process and prior to delivery. 3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement). 4) Proper documentation explaining design of the site and all languages and 3rd party components used. ## Platform Linux, Apache, mySQL, pure and simple.