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Re: Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs

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Post by r3bl »

mo wrote: post #10
tannhaeuser wrote: post #7

Congrats, there seem to be interesting offerings and employers on fossjobs.net. What are the criteria to be listed on fossjobs.net? Right now, I'm also seeing some admin/devops jobs that are only related to F/OSS insofar as eg. Linux is being used, but won't contribute to anything distributable under F/OSS licenses.

(Hi! This is Moritz, who currently maintains the fossjobs site) It's hard to define clear criteria. We do want to avoid jobs where people just "use" FOSS. The focus is definitely paid positions where you /contribute/ to FOSS in some way. Besides obvious developer positions, that might be administrative or sysop jobs at FOSS projects/orgs or other non-profit environments, more than sysop jobs at random web startups.

Since you're currently maintaining the site, you might want to consider splitting "Serbia and Montenegro" into two separate countries, since they've been independent from each other for over a decade now.

Re: Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs

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Post by oever »

The market for FOSS programmers will grow in Europe. A report has just been published that says “open source is important for the future of the European software industry.” [1]

In the UK, Government Digital Service already has a strict policy that software it writes should be open.

Being able to write FOSS in your day job is a wonderful boon . Especially in government it will help offset the lower salaries of the public sector.

[1] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/ec-study-rec...

Re: Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs

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Post by mo »

sunilkumarc wrote: post #14

When they say 'full time' in the job description, how many hours do they expect us to spend time on those projects?

If you find a job that looks interesting, it's always a good idea to get in touch and find out the details and how much it is up for negotiations. Quite often there's details in the description, and if not, I would expect full time to mean something around 40 hours per week. It helps to look at the cultural background and where the organization is based. Especially benefits (vacation days, sick days, health insurance) vary quite much between different countries.

Re: Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs

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Post by mo »

mryan wrote: post #16

Some of the jobs listed on the site date from 2013 - it seems as though some housekeeping is required.

No. Of course it makes little sense to apply to old jobs, but one of the goals here is to demonstrate that there _are_ actually paid jobs in FOSS. We keep old job listings around on purpose, also because it helps to find interesting organizations which you can then get in touch with.
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