Brilliant idea Chris so +1 from me.
I think it could be a nice way to engage the committer / contributor
base and also help bring in more companies to Apache. I know of one
company that couldn't find enough people with experience of an ASF
project locally so decided to take students on work experience and train
them. It would be great to be able to create a win-win situation
matching experienced and available people with the potential work out there.
Thanks
Sharan
On 21/07/17 10:25, Christofer Dutz wrote:
Hi,
interesting topic with the job-posting … which reminds me that I wanted to ask
something going down a similar path, but couldn’t quite figure out where to
ask, but I think this list is could be the best fit :-)
For the last years I have been investing almost all my free time in Apache
Projects and the ASF itself. Unfortunately I haven’t ever been able to do a job
using the projects I’m spending all my time in. So I started thinking, why is
this that way and how could this be changed.
I think in general you will probably get more public awareness by posting
articles in newspapers or blogs, but what if I would rather invest my time in
doing instead of talking?
Most people I’m currently thinking about are pros in talking about stuff others
created for them and for that they get to do fun jobs with cool projects.
So here’s my idea: How about having the opposite of the jobs mailing list?
Instead of a list where people can ask for people for a given task, we could
provide an Apache portal in which committers of ASF projects can sign up to be
listed to be available and interested in projects and consulting for the
projects they invest their time in? Some automated data (committer/pmc/since
when). Some textual information where the person can write down a little about
what he’s doing in the project, where he’s located, what type of work he’s open
to be doing. Making it easier for people to find the right guy for the job. All
together with a little tooling in which someone can get in touch with the guys
without simply dumping their email addresses publicly.
On the one side this would be one list, in which you can only get listed by
giving something to the community first and on the other side it would make the
less talking guys be noticed more, eventually helping them get the jobs they
deserve.
I for my part am so totally sick of doing one legacy crap project after the
other for yet another bank and am so totally losing my drive to develop at all.
I’m even thinking of switching my profession completely away from IT.
If I was able to have the companies using the stuff I build - and hereby
qualify as a pro in the topic equally as the big talkers – find me, I guess my
job would be the best I could imagine, but right now I’m so totally sick of it
:-(
What do you think of a thing like this? Has something like this been discussed
before?
Chris
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