Positions Open at Crossroads
Background Information
Crossroads is a student-run magazine published by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) in print and online at the Crossroads web site (http://www.acm.org/crossroads/). We are currently looking for students interested in joining the Editorial Staff. Crossroads is published quarterly and has a print circulation of more than 20,000; the Crossroads website receives (on average) more than 3,000 hits per day. NOTE: All positions are VOLUNTARY - there is no compensation involved.
Positions Open
Review of applications will begin September 1, 2004 and will continue until the positions are filled.
All positions require you to:
- *** Have excellent written English skills!! ***
- Be familiar with a unix environment
- Code HTML
- Be a student member of the ACM (not just the chapter at your school)
- Help us solicit submissions for Crossroads
- Review all Crossroads submissions
- Meet all deadlines in order to ensure timely production of Crossroads
- Provide a professional atmosphere for members of Crossroads community
- Participate actively in staff discussions
- Communicate with other staff members on all relevant matters
- Inform the editorial board of all absences of five days or more
- Commit to at least 5 hours of time every week doing Crossroads work
Specific Description:
- Associate Editor
(2)
See the job description for details. - Spanish Translation Team
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Assistant Graphics Editor
See the job description for details.
We also are seeking some columnists, who are NOT staff members. To apply, send an email to crossroads@acm.org, telling us about your qualifications, a list of 6 topics you would cover, and include a sample column of about 800 words to show us your writing style.
- Java, object-oriented Perl, or C++ for our Objective Viewpoint column
- Computer Networking for our Connector column
- Databases for a new, unnamed column
- Interdisciplinary CS for a new, unnamed column
- Open Source for a new, unnamed column
For more information
More information about Crossroads can be found at our web site, http://www.acm.org/crossroads/doc/information/. The Staff Policy can be found at: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/doc/information/staff_policy.html. If you have specific questions, please contact us at crossroads@acm.org.
Sincerely yours, Crossroads Editorial Staff