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?"

Comments

On slashdot

[AuMatar]

You've already done it. Post an email address and await the deluge.

Re:On slashdot

[byolinux]

If the job is related to free software, we'd be happy to post it.

I think you know the answer...

[kebes]

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.

Re:I think you know the answer...

[joe_bruin]

If the people who run Slashdot had any brains, they'd have had a real Technology Jobs section, not a halfassed partnership with Hotjobs. I mean, they're running the biggest geek site on the planet, where many of these people spend their down time. If they had posted a real job section, they could take over that market (particularly in the OSS section). Imagine a site where people can post comments about the jobs listed, and potentially communicate that way with the employer for all to read (hey, there's something that other job sites just don't do), where I can specify that I want a job doing C but not C++ (no other site has the geek focus that you can find here), and where, if I'm looking for a job, I can have job results come up in between my other Slashdot stories (that I read every day anyway).

And employers would *pay* to post jobs. Imagine having your position seen by all system admins worldwide that checked a box that they want to see sysadmin jobs on their Slashdot homepage? The response would be huge. Of course, far be it from OSTG from doing something that could make them money.

Advertising for Perl Jobs is simple

[Anonymous Coward]

jobs.perl.org is absolutely the first stop for the Perl subset of open source hiring, both for programmer types and sysadmin types.

Try your local LUG

[Yonder Way]

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.

Where?

[Ohreally_factor]

How about in your .sig for starters?

Re:Where?

[Qzukk]

How about in your .sig for starters?
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so... what are the qualifications you're looking for? ;)

Almost doesn't seem to matter

[carpeweb]

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.

You could try..

[StikyPad]

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.

University ?

[dYnkYn]

You can submit some job opportunites on the dedicated tool (here named Job Bourse) of most of universities having an IT department. For example:

• http://www2.epfl.ch/Jahia/site/uneedip/op/edit/pid /11703 (french only)

Development mailing list

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

USENIX / SAGE / LOPSA

[jsellens]

I might guess that most USENIX, SAGE and LOPSA members are well versed in open source tools.

You could try the respective jobs boards:

• http://www.usenix.org/jobs/
• http://www.sage.org/jobs/
• http://lopsa.org/jobs

What is the purpose of the cluster?

[Bender0x7D1]

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.

How solid is the business plan?

[rubinson]

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?

your problems

[r00t]

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.

Dice has turned into a free-for-all

[IANAAC]

I no longer work in the IT industry, however, I still have my resume up on dice.com. I still get a lot of inquiries (10-15 a week), but NONE are from direct hire employers. They are all recruiters. A nd if you look at the actual job descriptions, all these different recruiters are vying to fill the same position.

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.

Re:Craigslist ?

[vinsanity1]

i'd agree myspace gets a lot of traffic, but my guess is about 60% of it is girls in their early teens, and about 30% is goths.
probably not a very good place to advertise employment at all, let alone this particular job.

Does OSS development require special skills?

[ClosedSource]

"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.