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Where to Advertise for Open Source Job Openings?
OS Jobs asks: "The startup I work at is looking for an IT maven to design and run a large cluster (1000s) of Linux machines. We are fully plugged into the open source philosophy and would like to build this cluster using only open source tools. We have advertised at most of the regular places including Monster, various LUGs, and so forth. In response to our ads we see people with industrial experience who know every proprietary product in existence, but almost none who are steeped in open source development. So my question to the Slashdot community is: Where should open-source conscious employers advertise their open-source friendly jobs?"
You've already done it. Post an email address and await the deluge.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
I suspect that the poster's question will become answered when he receives many email regarding this job opportunity.
Basically a great place to advertise the job is Slashdot! Of course, this is not really a sustainable strategy (not every OSS job offer will merit a Slashdot story)...
You should consider clicking on the "Jobs" link on the OSTG bar that is at the top of Slashdot. I suspect that many OSS-savvy Slashdot readers use that when looking for jobs, so getting the offer listed there (it appears to link to Yahoo! HotJobs) would probably be a good idea.
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Not particularly relevant to your case, admittedly, but it's one of the few places I check regularly
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
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jobs.perl.org is absolutely the first stop for the Perl subset of open source hiring, both for programmer types and sysadmin types.
Craigslist
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Most local Linux User Groups welcome local companies that want to hire Linux talent. One of the most effective ways at our local LUG is to buy pizza for the meeting, and then you've got a captive audience of around 100 talented Linux geeks listening to you talk about your company for a few minutes and giving you a great opportunity to fish for resumes. And if you want to go completely cheap, they will usually let you advertise local Linux jobs on their general discussion mailing lists.
How about in your .sig for starters?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
OK, I'll risk negative karma by going tangentially off-topic.
A start-up with 1000s of machines?
Regardless of where you advertise (this post was a decent start, but check out the other OSTG sites; plus, Google linux jobs for lots of other sites), make sure you screen every candidate to see which one has the best current job. Before you hire that candidate, make sure you have a shot at filling that vacant position. In other words, start looking for where you're going to land when this one crashes. Also, get an ebay account so that you can dump all the Herman Miller chairs and foosball tables when that's all you have left. And party like it's 1999.
http://vger.kernel.org/
You'd have to post it as a lament though.
Man, I wish I could find some programmers as good as you guys for my positions starting at $95k with full medical and dental. It's amazing how many people turn down our 401k and stock option program, especially with the incredible opportunities for advancement.
Anyway, you make a good point about user mode autodetect with the current situation, although I still think in-kernel autodetect should be the goal.
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I know I can't be the only one that searches through craigslist for everything.
You know, myspace has a lot of traffic too now that I think about it.
Well, as you're asking on slashdot, there just happens to be these lovely red banner ads. They all seem to mention "Dice." So I'd give dice.com a looksee. But, maybe give Slashdot some revenue, and click thru the advert.
Bill? Is that you?!?
Shh.
"I know I can't be the only one that searches through craigslist for everything."
The problem with craigslist is that it's been taken over by "sales and marketing", "telemarketing", "home based scams", "make money quick" jobs. And the filtering mechanism is inadequate.
The development mailing list for the project(s) you plan on using. I guess, in your case, that would MPI or something Beowulf-related.
Have you thought about directly approaching some of the brilliant developpers working on these projects, anyway ? A job opportunity does not have to be advertised if you can fill it by networking inside the community.
I might guess that most USENIX, SAGE and LOPSA members are well versed in open source tools.
You could try the respective jobs boards:
Without knowing more about the purpose of the cluster, it is a hard question to answer. The best place to post/look/advertise probably isn't one of the one-stop, post all your job sites. Try to determine what skillset is specifically required for your job and start looking at related sites.
Also, you might want to reconsider what you are looking for. If you really want a single "IT maven" to design and run the cluster, you are setting yourself up for failure. With that many machines, just swapping out failed hardware approaches a full-time job, so your maven better have a lot of good help.
Reading code is like reading the dictionary - you have to read half of it before you can go back and understand it.
Cheap to advertise and apparently very popular:. html
http://www.gumtree.com/index_posting_jobs_landing
http://www.gumtree.com/ (Find other gumtree and kijiji sites around the world)
Something sounds a bit off here. You say that your company is "fully plugged into the open source philosophy," yet nobody is active or well known enough in your local Unix/development communities to know where to find help? Why do you want "to build this cluster using only open source tools" anyway? How do you know that a proprietary solution wouldn't be more cost effective? Even if you're committed to using free software tools for moral reasons (something that I'm not opposed to), what's the cost/benefit versus proprietary solutions?
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First, you used PA Careerlink.
Second, you left your resume sitting there. You need to direct it toward suitable matches.
Third, you OWN A HOME without having the finances to back it up. Yeah, it's a better deal if you can sit there for many years and pay the higher rates, but you're in no shape for either. Don't bother unless there are plenty of good-paying jobs for you within about a 7-mile radius.
Fourth, it appears you don't understand the concept of keywords. (though I only see a part of your resume) Your resume is wordy, yet lacking. Most of us take "functional code" to mean either that your code barely runs or that you use screwball academic languages like Haskell and Scheme. CVS is a revision control system, not a release system. You claim "cross platform", but never mention "portable" or "porting".
Fifth... you live in PA. You probably need to move. Find some place cheap that is near a good tech area. Example: Lowell, MA.
Man, you want "alternative" methods to finding OSS coders? The mainsteam isn't good enough? Go ask Al Quada or some fucking cult. That's the way you make it seem... as if normal guys who can code just simply aren't good enough unless they're completely into your "way of being".
Fucking fundamentalist bullshit it sounds like.
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is a good place to meet open source types. If you have money, buy a booth in the exhibit hall; if not, show up and tack your info up on the job board (they set up a buletin board outside the exhibit hall for this purpose). O'Reilly also has an opt-in e-mailing list for attendees.
But you just missed it.
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Keep in mind that the best talent already has jobs.
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While I can't answer the posters question, I really hope that someone can give a good answer to this for another reason. I'm a recent graduate, and while I have some experience working on Windows systems, and with Microsoft technology, I'm very interested in finding a development job working on Linux and with the various open source development tools. .NET is much less painful than working with MFC, I still don't enjoy it like I do developing under Linux). It would be great to have a place where I could find job listings working with F/OSS software.
I've gone through most of the "regular" channels in searching for a job (e.g. Monster, Dice, Hotjobs, Career Builder, my school's Career Services department), and while there are a few open source jobs, it seems like the vast majority of jobs are VB.NET, ASP.NET or C# working on Windows. While I could certainly do that, and I have applied for a few of these jobs, I went into programming because I wanted to do something I love for a living. I don't hate working in Windows, but I don't love it (Although
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First, pick the list that matches the desired job skills closest. I suspect you want some people who can operate that 1000+ machine environment, so http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-admin might be the place to go.
Second, make it clear what your post is about, so people who are NOT looking for a job can simply ignore it. Use a topic like "Job Offer: Startup looking for Linux admins".
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Nevermind the fact that these recruiters routinely disregard location and travel preference.
It comes down to recruiters searching on hot keywords (such as linux clusters), and mass-emailing to all possible matches.
Clearly you were a resident of said farm. How did you escape?
Wouldn't you like to go back? Out here in the real world people like to earn a living, to feed their families and dumb stuff like that. Such realities that cause you headkases such endless mental anguish. It's a much happier time, on the farm, where you can hallucinate with others of your kind (hmm, not unlike here on Slashdot) and pretend your quaint little cult is taking over the world.
to Code Snippets. :) Blatant ad, I know.
I know Linux Questions just started out with an job market place.
BTW: I haven't used it myself.
The Linux job market is hot here in the Metroplex (Dallas/Fort Worth). When ever I want a new job I will just post to Monster.com and the opportunities will contact me. So, I guess they were searching for keywords as found in my resume.
My point is: this may be your last resort (whereas pray should have been your first resort :) ) since what you are looking for seems to be in short supply for the near term.
"In response to our ads we see people with industrial experience who know every proprietary product in existence, but almost none who are steeped in open source development"
It sounds like you're letting your philosphy interfere with your business goals. What specific skills do you believe are unique to Open Source development that people with proprietary product experience lack?
It seems to me that Open Source is more of a licensing philosphy than a development methodology. Are you developing using a waterfall, CMM, XP, Agile or some other approach? For example if you use XP, proprietary developers who have used it will probably be a better match than open source developers who haven't.
for open source company that just wants to use open source, usually means they wont be able to pay you either! ; )
Seriously, though, you DO realize that what you are complaining about is the sign of a healthy, free market job board? Of course you get spammed. How exactly are you going to have a large job board and not get spammed? The best you can do is with a Social Network approach, but even that can be rigged.
I personally find the spam of use - it lets me know what agents to avoid. That is key. There are a LOT of sleezy agents/recruiters out there, and you really want to avoid the bad ones.
Honestly, your gripe sounds like someone who has just gone to a bazaar for the first time, and was expecting to find a supermarket.
I don't use anything else other than Dice, but then, I do contracting. None of the other boards are set up for effective use by contractors; they don't care, and it shows. Also, I've been seeing more direct contacts there, as some companies are slowly finding out that they can do what recruiters do, and save a bunch of money.
The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker.
I found my free software job on Idealist.
Become a FSF associate member before the low #s are used
Have a hot job, and no suitable applicants? You review your requirements and the screening process.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
Actually, Open Source could save the US government tons of money a year if they established a open software core of engineers for themselves. Then there is additional billions of savings for us citizens who could also use said software.
Shh.