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Using F/OSS and Unpaid Experience to Find a Job?
andphi asks: "How has volunteer F/OSS experience helped or hindered Slashdot readers in finding paid programming jobs?
I have been involved with a F/OSS game engine development project (Adonthell) for a few years now. I've become the primary story and plot developer for the project. I hardly even look at the code, though I do try to follow the traffic on the developer's list. I've learned C++, VB6, Perl, IA32 Assembler, and exposed myself to a great many other languages (JavaScript, HTML, XML, SQL, C, awk, sed, bash, etc.). But I wonder, what can I do to sell myself using my post-graduate project involvement?"
What you should do is make a printout of all your Slashdot posts, and tack that on to the end of your resume. Employers are VERY impressed by heavy participation at Slashdot; it has been shown to equate to high productivity on the job.
It probably varies a little the farther you get from Redmond, but sadly the parent has some truth to it, especially here in Western Washington.
Come across the lake - we have lots of Linux/C++/Perl jobs.
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