This is such a great concept for a job-seeking site; kudos!
Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs
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Re: Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs
#72I guess the Red Hat job openings are not FOSS enough? ;-) (disclaimer: I work at Red Hat, happy to hook site maintainer up with our team to coordinate)
Is it possible to work at Red Hat without using any proprietary software, let alone write any?
Re: Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs
#73I worked on a FOSS project. Part of the Kuali consortia, making software for higher education. I took the job to learn how these kinds of projects work. Specifically, the governance model. Well, it didn't . I wish I understood why. Writing about open sourcing Solaris, I think it was btilly who said that others had the right to fork, but not the power . That describes Kuali perfectly. We consortia members couldn't do…
I figure any percieved inertia in Kuali is a reflection of it's constituents. If all consortia members' IT dept are on an annual upgrade cycle over summer break, there's little incentive to push out daily bug fixes.
Plus, I'm guessing Indiana University has outsized influence on the shape of the project, since they founded it.
> We need academic style comparative analysis of FOSS governance models, funding models, project methodologies, etc. Learn from our mistakes, help people in the future.
I have a book here on my desk: "The business and Economics of Linux and Open Source" by Martin Fink. It's from 2002, and could use an update clearly.
Re: Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the other hand, if the number of jobs in recent time has to be padded with job openings in ancient history, is there really a substainable number of paid jobs in FOSS?
How does this matter? What do you mean by "sustainable"? One job is a job. Two jobs is two jobs.
Sustainable as in "I can make a career of this" or "if this particular project wanes, I can always hop over to one of the many other projects."
If you pad your listings, people will assume you need to because there _aren't_ many such jobs. Moreso over time as the ratio of filled listings to active recruitment grows -- if all visitors ever see are jobs that no longer accept applications, they will not come away with a positive outlook on the field.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Codemill also has github integration but it's not very actively used.
Re: Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs
#76The 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 pub…
I wonder how much of an incentive writing open source at somewhere like GDS actually is. While its certainly nice to develop in the open how much of what you write is actually useful in future jobs?
Surely the idea is that it is useful to your future colleagues?
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#77The 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/
I don't think so, somewhere else in this thread the developer of this job board says that his intention is to keep all listings forever, as this would prove that paid FOSS jobs exists in abundance. IMO a debatable approach.
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#78(from a job posting I saw)
"So where do you work?"
"Uhhh. Cockroach Labs"
Re: Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs
#79The 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 pub…
I wonder how much of an incentive writing open source at somewhere like GDS actually is. While its certainly nice to develop in the open how much of what you write is actually useful in future jobs?
If I could work on GPL'ed software, I'd do it just for the sake of the political argument (yes, I'm that far :-) )
Re: Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder how much of an incentive writing open source at somewhere like GDS actually is. While its certainly nice to develop in the open how much of what you write is actually useful in future jobs?
If I could work on GPL'ed software, I'd do it just for the sake of the political argument (yes, I'm that far :-) )
Me too. (yes me too)