Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs

Indeed. I clicked the US link and the newest post is from August 2016. And that's the only one from 2016. The next newest is from August 2015 and they quickly get much older than that as you move down the list.

I guess the one benefit is seeing a list of potential employers of FOSS developers even if it means researching current possibilities elsewhere...

If you’re up for contributing a simple timeout or something like that I guess the developers would appreciate that a lot :) https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/

An issue requesting automatic expiry was created a bit before you commented: https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/issues/14

I wonder how much of an incentive writing open source at somewhere like GDS actually is. While its certainly nice to develop in the open how much of what you write is actually useful in future jobs?

> In the UK, Government Digital Service already has a strict policy that software it writes should be open.

And they pay contractors 1000 a day for that.

Why the hell would anyone want to work for open source projects that can't pay for their housing and food.

I'm assuming it's for jobs at FOSS shops, not necessarily shops which publish all their stuff with free software licenses. The latter sounds too niche although I'd love to see a board like that exist.

(Hi! This is Moritz, who currently maintains the fossjobs site)

It's hard to define clear criteria.

We do want to avoid jobs where people just "use" FOSS. The focus is definitely paid positions where you /contribute/ to FOSS in some way. Besides obvious developer positions, that might be administrative or sysop jobs at FOSS projects/orgs or other non-profit environments, more than sysop jobs at random web startups.

I've been looking for something like this.

I just want to say I appreciate the effort! :)

Yay FOSS!

Do you mean something like Bountysource? https://www.bountysource.com/

I think you are searching for something like this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_bounty https://www.bountysource.com/

Check out the history of such sites, starting from the late 1990s: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/history/software...

Lots of research on bounty sites and other funding platforms: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi...

I do this all the time. My company uses BountySource where we can.

And sometimes I just walk into GitHub and @ the contributors and offer money like this https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/3337 Some people complained but fuck 'em. End result, hired somebody and got the job done.

It weeds out the competition.

I would say it depends on the specific job. :)

Happy to talk about it, I am just a bit afraid that it will flood the site and make it hard to see other offers.

Is it possible to work at Red Hat without using any proprietary software, let alone write any?

Another Red Hatter here to give a recommendation for Red Hat. All of my work is in the open. Furthermore I can say just about all code written at RH is upstream-first. Red Hat has a great culture and is very remote friendly. (My team is fairly distributed)

I identify as the latter; "programmer" narrows your job title down to someone that writes code, while the latter opens up the full scala involved in software development. Most time is spent not on writing code, but talking about it - this is even more true in a lot of OS projects I've seen, where there can be very long mailing list discussions about changing small pieces of code. And besides that, there's also things like server administration, datacenter automation, data modelling, analytics configuration and statistics processing, knowledge sharing / transfer (blogs, conferences if that's your thing), etc.

I figure any percieved inertia in Kuali is a reflection of it's constituents. If all consortia members' IT dept are on an annual upgrade cycle over summer break, there's little incentive to push out daily bug fixes.

Plus, I'm guessing Indiana University has outsized influence on the shape of the project, since they founded it.

> We need academic style comparative analysis of FOSS governance models, funding models, project methodologies, etc. Learn from our mistakes, help people in the future.

I have a book here on my desk: "The business and Economics of Linux and Open Source" by Martin Fink. It's from 2002, and could use an update clearly.

Well, what about me? I _am_ volunteering, and a couple of others CC @fossjobs.net on Twitter whenever they come across a job offer.

Yes, you are right, this site depends on volunteers. So what? Wikipedia does as well. Why would anyone contribute their knowledge to something that does not help them? Well, maybe it will one day.

We don't have to start a debate about why anyone would volunteer anything, but I find your reasoning pretty self-centered. Also, you're arguing as if this was a mere proposal for a job site that lists FOSS jobs. No, it's not. Is is an actual site that lists FOSS jobs, and it works.

And don't forget about FOSS companies/NGOs who are looking for talent. Some of them actually like to post their job listings at our site, and do so with a very self-centered desire: To fill a position, potentially with less noise than using one of the other platforms. Why would FOSS developers want to look at all the depressing proprietary jobs on other platforms? :)

No. Of course it makes little sense to apply to old jobs, but one of the goals here is to demonstrate that there _are_ actually paid jobs in FOSS. We keep old job listings around on purpose, also because it helps to find interesting organizations which you can then get in touch with.

Might be best to report it at https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/issues :)

What category would you suggest to add? If it's about actual development, I think "Programmer" will do just fine. I am a bit reluctant to add a new category specifically for this.

... which can be a great resource to find jobs appropriate also for fossjobs.net.

but: "usual price $250/30 days"

Textile is a syntax invented for the Textpattern blogging system.

That’s not an unrelated page; it describes Textile’s syntax in a column on the right and lets you try it interactively.

(No, it’s not a flavour of Markdown.)

If you find a job that looks interesting, it's always a good idea to get in touch and find out the details and how much it is up for negotiations. Quite often there's details in the description, and if not, I would expect full time to mean something around 40 hours per week. It helps to look at the cultural background and where the organization is based. Especially benefits (vacation days, sick days, health insurance) vary quite much between different countries.

It's simple, and you can help: I am adding jobs that I come across or that people submit. It's a collaborative action. Job listings from 2012 were added in 2012. It's not a new site. Of course we don't add old expired jobs.

Hi!

A lot of the jobs on fossjobs.net are remote work. In fact, you can directly see the job's location on the job listing. It's definitely worthwhile reaching out to the project to ask.

And of course we would list openings in India, as we would list foss jobs in any place. If you hear of any, please let us know! The easiest way to do that is to cc @fossjobs_net on Twitter.

Patches welcome. This is a hobby side project, and it does its job. (pun intended)