Fossjobs: a Job Board for Free and Open Source Jobs
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The launch of Fossjobs, a job board dedicated to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) opportunities, has sparked a lively discussion about the state of FOSS employment. While some commenters, like eu, note that the number of listed jobs is relatively low, others, such as pabs3, point out that big companies like Intel, AMD, and RedHat are well-represented, and that more job postings can be found on related platforms like IRC and mailing lists. The conversation also touches on the issue of job listing freshness, with some users, like fuzzy_biscuit and troyvit, expressing concerns that the data may not be entirely up-to-date, although em-bee counters that the listings are actually fresh, just not exhaustive. A more contentious issue arises with elAhmo's criticism that the job board's lack of salary information is "ridiculous," although 7bit notes that this practice will soon become illegal in Germany.
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But you're right to say there aren't a ton relative to non-FOSS jobs.
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
As people who want to work we should just reject using pages like this, as this favours only employers.
could you elaborate?
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/pay-transparency...
wtf do they mean by "all genders"? Just write Senior Software Engineer, that is genderless by default?
Job listing are then trying to use something like "vyvojar/ka" to signify that both genders are sought for, but there is nothing like that in English, so you will get translation as "software engineer (all genders)" instead of using just "software engineer"
For another nice bit of related trivia, in Arabic the female gender form is also the plural gender form.
That trick with the asterisk reminds me of how in Spanish you'll see people using @ to do similar, @ being a place holder for two different possible letters specifically "o" and "a" which can be masculine or feminine depending.
This makes sense, thank you!
I've contributed to Tweede Golf before and that was a very pleasant experience, I can't imagine they're in the minority here.
A what issue?
One word of caution (from personal experience) to anyone dreaming of getting paid to work on OSS: be very, very skeptical of any VC funded startup whose flagship "product" is OSS. Regardless of the public messaging, you'll likely see: resources continually pulled, features intentionally withheld to make the private offering more competitive, community needs de-prioritized, etc. On top of that, "bait-and-switch" job offers were very common in my experience; promises of living the dream getting paid to work on OSS only to be transferred to an internal, commercial team a week later.
I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but, especially for less well established companies in the OSS space, caution is advised.
It's very difficult to find open source jobs otherwise.
An improvement I'd like to see to Fossjobs.net is a field for "open communication" too. Sometimes open source software doesn't actually imply open source communication or development in the open. AKA Android. And it would be nice to be able to see if the company or organization embraces open communication and or open development.
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources