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I 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)
Happy to talk about it, I am just a bit afraid that it will flood the site and make it hard to see other offers.
A site like this would be nice, but it would need a steady team of volunteers to source job listings. I suspect most job openings and offers are launched on country-specific websites and systems, many which probably (even intentionally) are locked in and lack a public API. Right now, checking Norway, there are zero listing. That may be true (I wouldn't know), but from that alone I'm guessing this site does not know h…
Yes, you are right, this site depends on volunteers. So what? Wikipedia does as well. Why would anyone contribute their knowledge to something that does not help them? Well, maybe it will one day.
We don't have to start a debate about why anyone would volunteer anything, but I find your reasoning pretty self-centered. Also, you're arguing as if this was a mere proposal for a job site that lists FOSS jobs. No, it's not. Is is an actual site that lists FOSS jobs, and it works.
And don't forget about FOSS companies/NGOs who are looking for talent. Some of them actually like to post their job listings at our site, and do so with a very self-centered desire: To fill a position, potentially with less noise than using one of the other platforms. Why would FOSS developers want to look at all the depressing proprietary jobs on other platforms? :)
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No. Of course it makes little sense to apply to old jobs, but one of the goals here is to demonstrate that there _are_ actually paid jobs in FOSS. We keep old job listings around on purpose, also because it helps to find interesting organizations which you can then get in touch with.
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?
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 anything to help ourselves improve things, like simple bug fixes, without it being a major production. Very disempowering, pretty much the opposite of why I wanted to work on FOSS.
We need academic style comparative analysis of FOSS governance models, funding models, project methodologies, etc. Learn from our mistakes, help people in the future.
Where did you get your initial feed of job offers? I can see offers that are 4 years old
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…
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…
Lots of research on bounty sites and other funding platforms: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi...
There is also https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs
but: "usual price $250/30 days"
I 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)
I would say it depends on the specific job. :) Happy to talk about it, I am just a bit afraid that it will flood the site and make it hard to see other offers.
https://www.redhat.com/en/jobs/categories/technology
Again, happy to coordinate a direct contact.
You can get me at jwildebo [at] redhat dot com