Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

fossjobs.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

81–90 of 99 posts

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

#81

Post by fulldecent »

bigato wrote: post #49

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…

I do this all the time. My company uses BountySource where we can.

And sometimes I just walk into GitHub and @ the contributors and offer money like this https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/3337 Some people complained but fuck 'em. End result, hired somebody and got the job done.

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

#82

Post by phkahler »

smhenderson wrote: post #53
laumars wrote: post #37

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…

Indeed. I clicked the US link and the newest post is from August 2016. And that's the only one from 2016. The next newest is from August 2015 and they quickly get much older than that as you move down the list. I guess the one benefit is seeing a list of potential employers of FOSS developers even if it means researching current possibilities elsewhere...

As I write your post is 7 hours old. I saw 4 posted in the US for 2017 so perhaps being on HN is getting them some attention. But yes, there were things from 2012.

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

#83

Post by user5994461 »

oever wrote: post #17

The 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…

> In the UK, Government Digital Service already has a strict policy that software it writes should be open.

And they pay contractors 1000 a day for that.

Why the hell would anyone want to work for open source projects that can't pay for their housing and food.

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

#84

Post by user5994461 »

davexunit wrote: post #72
jwildeboer wrote: post #43

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)

Is it possible to work at Red Hat without using any proprietary software, let alone write any?

It's not possible to work ANYWHERE without using proprietary software, running on patended hardware, coming partially from China.

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

#86

Post by ehayes »

jwildeboer wrote: post #43

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)

Another Red Hatter here to give a recommendation for Red Hat. All of my work is in the open. Furthermore I can say just about all code written at RH is upstream-first. Red Hat has a great culture and is very remote friendly. (My team is fairly distributed)

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

#87

Post by ehayes »

davexunit wrote: post #72
jwildeboer wrote: post #43

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)

Is it possible to work at Red Hat without using any proprietary software, let alone write any?

Not only possible, I'm pretty sure it's impossible to work exclusively on closed-source at Red Hat.

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

#88

Post by mo »

jldugger wrote: post #74
mo wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Again: We am not "padding" anything. The site exists since 2012, and we keep old job listings around, as an archive and to help find interesting potential employers that may have jobs apart of what is listed. There's an open ticket about "fading them out" a little to make it even more obvious. There's plenty of recent jobs listed, so your point about "only ever seeing jobs that no longer accept applications" is moot. Also, subscribe to the RSS feed (or Twitter/Facebook), and "all you will ever see will be fresh, open positions".

It's like arguing that a news site should delete yesterday's news instead of keeping an archive, because "you're only interested in today".

As for your "sustainability" and "career building", I disagree there too, but that's for a different conversation.

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

#90

Post by smhenderson »

phkahler wrote: post #82
smhenderson wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. I clicked the US link and the newest post is from August 2016. And that's the only one from 2016. The next newest is from August 2015 and they quickly get much older than that as you move down the list. I guess the one benefit is seeing a list of potential employers of FOSS developers even if it means researching current possibilities elsewhere...

As I write your post is 7 hours old. I saw 4 posted in the US for 2017 so perhaps being on HN is getting them some attention. But yes, there were things from 2012.

That's great! As mentioned my initial take away was at least it was a good place to start researching companies that actually have FOSS positions available whose focus is on contributions and not just using/understanding FOSS.

After my comment I read more and it looks like they want more contributions and, I agree, being on HN probably helped!

Post reply on HN