I think this is a good idea. Should it also include tenders for contractor work? There have been a ton of those for LibreOffice: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/category/tenders/

I also just learned that there are a bunch of positions open for Blender right now: https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2016-Augus...

Open source software can capture a large usage surface by the myriads of contributions they can accept.

It would help fight the more general NIH syndrome, and maybe educate people towards having sound IS urbanization, architecture.

I'm currently battling with an organic data processing pipeline written in 5 languages operating on 4 databases. A proper ETL properly architectured would have saved money.

This week I had to insert yet another slice in a time sandwich. I dream of sound mutable/immutable separation, disk space, retry strategies, idempotence, and rematerialization.

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So, I'd be in favour for it.