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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.
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I'm really confused by one of the Germany listings that says in parenthesis "all genders" are jobs in Germany gender specific or something? I'm thinking maybe "Senior Software Engineer" is gendered in German or something. I speak Spanish, and there's a TON of words that are gendered, so I could understand if this is just a case of German being translated and something being non-obvious to me as a result.
In german most job titles can either be masculine or feminine, and the masculine case is chosen "by default". Most job advertisements clarify that persons of all gender are welcome to apply. As the job advertisement is in english, it doesn't really make sense here.
For another nice bit of related trivia, in Arabic the female gender form is also the plural gender form.
One word of caution (from personal experience) to anyone dreaming of getting paid to work on OSS: be very, very skeptical of any VC funded startup whose flagship "product" is OSS. Regardless of the public messaging, you'll likely see: resources continually pulled, features intentionally withheld to make the private offering more competitive, community needs de-prioritized, etc. On top of that, "bait-and-switch" job offers were very common in my experience; promises of living the dream getting paid to work on OSS only to be transferred to an internal, commercial team a week later.
I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but, especially for less well established companies in the OSS space, caution is advised.
Happy to see that this lists jobs that seem to be truly dedicated to FOSS (even if the listings are limited). One word of caution (from personal experience) to anyone dreaming of getting paid to work on OSS: be very, very skeptical of any VC funded startup whose flagship "product" is OSS. Regardless of the public messaging, you'll likely see: resources continually pulled, features intentionally withheld to make the p…
"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 very difficult to find open source jobs otherwise.
An improvement I'd like to see to Fossjobs.net is a field for "open communication" too. Sometimes open source software doesn't actually imply open source communication or development in the open. AKA Android. And it would be nice to be able to see if the company or organization embraces open communication and or open development.
Happy to see that this lists jobs that seem to be truly dedicated to FOSS (even if the listings are limited). One word of caution (from personal experience) to anyone dreaming of getting paid to work on OSS: be very, very skeptical of any VC funded startup whose flagship "product" is OSS. Regardless of the public messaging, you'll likely see: resources continually pulled, features intentionally withheld to make the p…
VC-Funded startups look a lot like post-secondary education where funding is a continuous issue. Been like that for many decades, unfortunately.
You seem to work for free too