[Chicago] Advice about a Java program?

[Bob Haugen]

Congratulations Sheila! Hope that job turns out to be as cool as it sounds.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:58 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Bob Haugen <bob.haugen at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> IBM, Red Hat, Canonical, et al, make a lot of money off open source
>> projects, and also pay people to work on them.
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> 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.
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> The OpenHatch wiki has a page for grant opportunities,
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Opportunities
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> It links to Sumana's blog post, which I want to call out directly,
> http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/07/30/0
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> 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
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> 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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> --
> shekay at pobox.com
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