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

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post #49

It would be interesting to have an option to pay for desired new features in existing projects. You could call it "bid for code" or something: people who need a certain feature in an open-source project would commit to paying some amount of money for it. Other people interested in the same feature could also join. A bit similar to a kickstarter, but for feature requests. Developers would choose what to work on, depen…

Do you mean something like Bountysource? https://www.bountysource.com/

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

#52
post #49

It would be interesting to have an option to pay for desired new features in existing projects. You could call it "bid for code" or something: people who need a certain feature in an open-source project would commit to paying some amount of money for it. Other people interested in the same feature could also join. A bit similar to a kickstarter, but for feature requests. Developers would choose what to work on, depen…

I think you are searching for something like this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_bounty https://www.bountysource.com/

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

#53
post #37

The first link I clicked on (the UK section[1]) was listed entire with jobs dated 2015 . Even assuming some of those companies still have openings, seeing results that old immediately discourages me from investigating further on your resource. So it might be worth hiding expired positions from a UX perspective. [1] https://www.fossjobs.net/jobs-in/United-Kingdom/ edit: The 2nd link I click on had jobs ranging from 20…

Indeed. I clicked the US link and the newest post is from August 2016. And that's the only one from 2016. The next newest is from August 2015 and they quickly get much older than that as you move down the list.

I guess the one benefit is seeing a list of potential employers of FOSS developers even if it means researching current possibilities elsewhere...

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

#54
post #49

It would be interesting to have an option to pay for desired new features in existing projects. You could call it "bid for code" or something: people who need a certain feature in an open-source project would commit to paying some amount of money for it. Other people interested in the same feature could also join. A bit similar to a kickstarter, but for feature requests. Developers would choose what to work on, depen…

Do you mean something like Bountysource? https://www.bountysource.com/

Oh, that's nice, thank you. And it looks like they already have some integration with github: http://blog.bountysource.com/post/48954271533/improved-githu...

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

#57
post #37

The first link I clicked on (the UK section[1]) was listed entire with jobs dated 2015 . Even assuming some of those companies still have openings, seeing results that old immediately discourages me from investigating further on your resource. So it might be worth hiding expired positions from a UX perspective. [1] https://www.fossjobs.net/jobs-in/United-Kingdom/ edit: The 2nd link I click on had jobs ranging from 20…

If you’re up for contributing a simple timeout or something like that I guess the developers would appreciate that a lot :) https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/

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

#58

Bug: seraching for partime jobs take to https://www.fossjobs.net/page-unavailable/ . ie. https://www.fossjobs.net/jobs-in//parttime/ takes to https://www.fossjobs.net/page-unavailable/

Might be best to report it at https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/issues :)

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

#59
post #20
post #15

Removed.

Patches welcome. This is a hobby side project, and it does its job. (pun intended)

Help us hack on Tramcar (https://github.com/wfhio/tramcar). It's still very early days, but we'd love to see others starting use and contribute to this software! :)

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

#60

Bug: seraching for partime jobs take to https://www.fossjobs.net/page-unavailable/ . ie. https://www.fossjobs.net/jobs-in//parttime/ takes to https://www.fossjobs.net/page-unavailable/

Might be best to report it at https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/issues :)

That's probably https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/issues/9 :)
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