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Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs

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Re: Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs

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It is ridiculous to post a jobs listing side without salaries or salary ranges listed. As people who want to work we should just reject using pages like this, as this favours only employers.

Unfortunately, that's normal in Germany and many listing are German. Fortunately, this fucking practice will be illegal in a little over 4 months.

Re: Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs

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"Senior Software Engineer (all genders) - Wikibase Suite" wtf do they mean by "all genders"? Just write Senior Software Engineer, that is genderless by default?

It's a weird direct translation from German. The word for an SWE is gendered, but the postings clarify that the job is open to everyone.

Re: Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs

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there aren’t many such jobs

There's definitely a lot more I think but they just don't all get posted there. I know I've seen various FOSS jobs but they get posted or talked about in IRC, mailing lists for a specific project, etc. But you're right to say there aren't a ton relative to non-FOSS jobs.

There are definitely a lot from big companies like Intel/AMD/RedHat, and some medium companies like Canonical. More on the FOSSjobs wiki.

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources

Re: Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs

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That got into 2024 postings fairly quickly. I don't get the sense that the data is very fresh or expansive.

it is fresh, but it is certainly not expansive. there aren't many businesses that work with and produce FOSS exclusively. and for all others it would be hard to guarantee that you are going to work on FOSS most or all of the time, so i'd think that not to many jobs even qualify

Re: Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs

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"Senior Software Engineer (all genders) - Wikibase Suite" wtf do they mean by "all genders"? Just write Senior Software Engineer, that is genderless by default?

English is actually a weird language without genders in nouns. I.e. in Slavic languages you can say "male software engineer" with word "vyvojar" and "female software engineer" with a word "vyvojarka" and then lot of grammar is built atop of this fact.

Job listing are then trying to use something like "vyvojar/ka" to signify that both genders are sought for, but there is nothing like that in English, so you will get translation as "software engineer (all genders)" instead of using just "software engineer"

Re: Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs

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post #11
post #6

It is ridiculous to post a jobs listing side without salaries or salary ranges listed. As people who want to work we should just reject using pages like this, as this favours only employers.

Unfortunately, that's normal in Germany and many listing are German. Fortunately, this fucking practice will be illegal in a little over 4 months.

> Fortunately, this fucking practice will be illegal in a little over 4 months

could you elaborate?

Re: Fossjobs: A job board for Free and Open Source jobs

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Is there something similar that's just about contributing to companies' open source software? I like helping out projects while also gaining some experience, but most FOSS software has a cookie-licking issue.

I've contributed to Tweede Golf before and that was a very pleasant experience, I can't imagine they're in the minority here.

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