Where do they tech Python officialy ?

[Alex Martelli]

Alex Popescu <nospam.themindstorm at gmail.com> wrote:
   ...
> > and you will both learn a lot _and_ acquire "professional experience"
> > that any enlightened employer will recognize as such.  
> 
> It depends :-). In my experience I met employers being concerned by my
> implication in the oss world :-).

Considering that even the King of Proprietary Software, Microsoft, now
happily hires major Open Source figures such as Jim Hugunin (MS was also
a top-tier sponsor at the recent OSCON, with both managerial and senior
technical employees giving keynotes and tech talks), it boggles the mind
to think about which kind of company would instead be "concerned" by a
candidate's OS experience.


> > That will take a
> > while, but not as long as getting a college degree (and it will be far
> > cheaper than the degree).
> 
> I don't know much about the open community in Python world, but in Java
> world becoming a project member may be more difficult than getting a 
> degree (or close to :-)) ).

In a major project, you will of course have to supply useful
contributions as well as proving to have a reasonable personality &c
before being granted committer privileges; and a few projects (centered
on a group of committers employed by a single firm or on an otherwise
close-knit small clique) are not very open to the outside world at all.
But (at least wrt projects using Python, C, C++ -- I have no experience
of opensource projects focused on Java instead) that is the exception,
not the rule.


Alex