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Using F/OSS and Unpaid Experience to Find a Job?

Posted by Cliff on from the make-sure-it's-on-your-résumé dept.

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?"

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  1. Start your resume off like this: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "I used to be a zealot monkey faggot with my lips all over Whorevald's tiny little cock, but then I grew up, saw the light and became a .NET developer and a strong Windows advocate. Everybody knows only faggot zealots use Faggot Open Sore Software.

    You'll be hired in no time, I promise.

  2. Your "plan"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why not just buy a few domain names and build some fake companies that you did "internships" with on "high profile" projects? It'll be worth about the same as putting your SorceForge projects on your CV.