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

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Post by mo »

r3bl wrote: post #13
mo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(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.

Done. Thanks!

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

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Post by Perceptes »

What a great resource! I used weworkremotely.com to find my current job. A combination of the two would be perfect for me, but I see that many of the jobs are already remote. I'm also pleased to see the term "Programmer" used instead of "Software Engineer." I always identify myself as the former.

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

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Post by waldir »

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.

The repository and website should have these criteria mentioned explicitly. I'll probably send a PR to that effect :)

ps - amazing initiative, congrats!

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

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Post by korrach »

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.

Documentation! It's the one thing no project does right. A google search and stack exchange answer from 5 years ago is no where near good enough.

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

Perceptes wrote: post #23

What a great resource! I used weworkremotely.com to find my current job. A combination of the two would be perfect for me, but I see that many of the jobs are already remote. I'm also pleased to see the term "Programmer" used instead of "Software Engineer." I always identify myself as the former.

I identify as the latter; "programmer" narrows your job title down to someone that writes code, while the latter opens up the full scala involved in software development. Most time is spent not on writing code, but talking about it - this is even more true in a lot of OS projects I've seen, where there can be very long mailing list discussions about changing small pieces of code. And besides that, there's also things like server administration, datacenter automation, data modelling, analytics configuration and statistics processing, knowledge sharing / transfer (blogs, conferences if that's your thing), etc.

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

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Post by mo »

waldir wrote: post #27
mo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(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.

The repository and website should have these criteria mentioned explicitly. I'll probably send a PR to that effect :) ps - amazing initiative, congrats!

As I've said, there are no criteria, it is a case-by-case decision. The general guideline is on the website, "We only list jobs that directly improve and involve FOSS or Open Hardware projects."

That being said, I welcome suggestions on how to improve the wording, some examples what fits and what does not, etc. -- Thanks!

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