Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
We Are Hiring - You Too?
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2012 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
Wikimedia Foundation is hiring, a lot. We need your help to:
- help more poor people access Wikipedia for free via SMS (mobile engineer)
- get from deploying every two weeks to continuous integration, so everyone benefits faster from fresh code (release manager)
- improve our sitewide search tool. It's meh and our users deserve better (search operations engineer)
- make sure our designers and mobile engineers build the right things (mobile product manager)
- create and manage efficient storage software architectures, so when people upload terabytes of educational videos, users can reliably and quickly get to them (storage and ops engineer)
- like 19 other jobs, seriously, we're hiring a lot
And of course everything you make at the Wikimedia Foundation is freely licensed, so you can suggest your buddies use it to solve their problems, write public blog posts about it, talk about it at parties and conferences, and link to it on your résumé. Isn't open source rockin'?
Some other places that make open source software and are hiring: Linaro, 10gen (makers of MongoDB), Participatory Culture Foundation, Balboa Park Online Collective, CollectionSpace, Mozilla, OpenStack, Red Hat, Canonical, Collabora. And you can check the FSF jobs board.
If you're hiring people to improve open source -- designers, tech writers, product managers, sysadmins, coders, etc. -- feel free to leave a comment. I know a few FLOSS-ish folks who are about to start looking and maybe I can direct them your way as well.
Comments
Sumana
01 Dec 2012, 13:38 p.m.
Sumana
03 Dec 2012, 12:59 p.m.
Igalia seeks "a Free Software enthusiast living in the San Francisco Bay Area to work with us in the role of Sales Engineer." Job opening.
Oh, and WMF pays just fine. Maybe you heard that Leonard and I just made a $10,000 donation to the Ada Initiative? Hint: I'm the only one in my marriage that has a job. :-)