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How To Hire Great Open Source Developers?

Posted by simoniker on from the low-uid-always-attractive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This is the first article I've ever read specifically about hiring open source developers, and how to judge their ability not just to code but to work with others. It's reprinted over at ITMJ [part of OSDN, as this site is] from a book by Martin Fink, the General Manager for HP's Linux Systems Division. Brings up a lot of good points, including how you need to make sure your open source people are developing things (on company time) that do the company some good, not just scratching their own itches. Fun quote: 'Discover what pseudonyms your candidate uses online. Look at the archives at SlashDot and other online locales. Does your candidate hide behind secret pseudonyms to trash other individuals? Is there passion without condemnation?'"

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  1. Search Slashdot for their posting behavior? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh shit.

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    1. Re:Search Slashdot for their posting behavior? by ObviousGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe you should have posted that AC.

      Idiot.

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  2. What not to do by tankdilla · · Score: 5, Funny
    How to not get hired for an open source project:

    Boss: What's your Slashdot screen name?
    Employee: Anonymous Coward.

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    1. Re:What not to do by The+Famous+Brett+Wat · · Score: 5, Funny
      How to not get hired for an open source project:

      Boss: What's your Slashdot screen name?
      Employee: The correct Slashdot term is "nickname", you ignorant AOLer!

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  3. Animal Psychology by beware1000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Culturally, your engineers will struggle between their loyalty to the community and their loyalty to the company.

    haha! they make them sounds like confused pets or something.

    "Don't be too quick to introduce your Engineer to it's new environment, Engineers are not well known for adapting quickly to change!"

  4. Re:Good article, but one thing irritates me by bsartist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being an open source developer is not a religion.

    You must be new here...

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