[Chicago] Advice about a Java program?

[sheila miguez]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Bob Haugen <bob.haugen at gmail.com> wrote:

> IBM, Red Hat, Canonical, et al, make a lot of money off open source
> projects, and also pay people to work on them.
>

I just got a job with Canonical, and I'm hoping I'll have a good balance of
time to spend on open source projects. I start next week! My first sprint
will be in Taipei in November. My team is remote, and one team member works
from the Taipei office. Neat.

Some thoughts on getting paid for FOSS or FOSS friendly work.

The OpenHatch wiki has a page for grant opportunities,
https://openhatch.org/wiki/Opportunities

It links to Sumana's blog post, which I want to call out directly,
http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/07/30/0

When I started my job search, I applied to companies that do FOSS work
before diving in to just-a-job companies. I didn't want to relocate, though
I considered it for archive.org. Wikimedia Foundation has remote positions,
but I didn't get an interview with those folks. I recommend applying there,
though; they are nice folks. I totally missed getting a call back from
Mozilla for the jobs I applied for, though I did get a phone screen for a
Mozilla Science Lab job. alas, I did not get that one. :)

Chicago is friendly with respect to open data/gov jobs. I think 18F will
have a physical office here soon, but they also offer remote jobs.
https://github.com/18F

For a job-job where you are willing to relocate, I'd consider looking at
Etsy or Stripe. Etsy runs Hackerschool, and Stripe sponsors an open source
retreat. I didn't apply since I didn't want to relocate, but I respect them
for running those projects.




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