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The GNOME Foundation Is Hiring (gnome.org)
"The GNOME Foundation is pleased to be able to offer paid employment to exceptional people who have the drive to help us complete our mission," reads a new announcement. Gnome.org explains:
Today, July 6th 2018, the GNOME Foundation has announced a number of positions it is recruiting for to help drive the GNOME project and Free Software on the desktop.
As previously announced, this has been made possible thanks to a generous grant that the Foundation has received, enabling us to accelerate this expansion. "These positions are key to ensuring that the Foundation remains sustainable and that we are able to support the community in key areas," said Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.
The Foundation is currently recruiting for four posts:
As previously announced, this has been made possible thanks to a generous grant that the Foundation has received, enabling us to accelerate this expansion. "These positions are key to ensuring that the Foundation remains sustainable and that we are able to support the community in key areas," said Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.
The Foundation is currently recruiting for four posts:
- Development Coordinator. This will ensure that we receive sufficient funds to continue our work delivering free software.
- Program Coordinator. The Program Coordinator will free up time from those involved in organizational, administrative and logistical problems.
- Devops/Sysadmin. The systems and services we run need proper maintenance and care. As Flathub [An app store and build service for Linux] continues to grow, more support is needed to achieve this.
- GTK+ core developer. GTK+ is core to our entire platform. Investing in development and maintenance of this toolkit will benefit the whole GNU/Linux ecosystem.
"The Foundation is keen to hear from any person who is interested in applying for one of these posts."
I know the rate for a troll, but what's the going rate for a gnome these days?
And here I was thinking the bank would gift me my mortgage payments like how companies have been asking us to gift our time and skill.
or to people who think that they're exceptional?
Horus reference not withstanding, Oglaf is more esoteric than most realize...
>" to exceptional people who have the drive to help us complete our mission"
Is the mission ever actually "complete"? Besides, sometimes it seems the mission is just to change things constantly in a way that irritates as many users as possible.
One Indian. Seems like a good use of money.
-- I ignore anonymous replies to my comments and postings.
I think there's a certain Slashdotter who has made his "Internet home" here who would gladly rummage around and troubleshoot keyboards for the developers.
Just don't let him talk, he'll suck you in his world and you might not make it.
Uhm, you should have warned us before linking to a SFW Oglaf page. And the actual page is here rather than some Wikia stuff that fails to load.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/05/linus_slams_gnome_three/
Nothing changed. Rumors he went to this to that etc. Everybody knows Gnome is as bleeding edge as windows 3.1. Stupid looking piece of shit let it die.
"...filled with hatred and frustrations on a daily basis"
Nothing a good dicking can't fix.
Remove dbus, pulse, and systemd, then we can talk about all the other bloat.
I want .dotfiles. And fire all the Windows-want-a-bes that have been fucking up Linux GUIs the last 2 decades.
If I wanted a GUI like Windows, I'd run Windows.
If I want a GUI like OSX, I'd run OSX.
Some Gnome things are nice. Most are bloated. I remember running X11 on a system with 8MB of RAM and it was nice. I have 500x more RAM and a 1000x faster CPU now, and Gnome is sluggish.
No skin color/number of sexual identities/missing limb requirement to be hired ? :D
Well, people are free to (legally) do what they want with their money but there are plenty of DE's that could use some resources. Gnome 2 was nice though. I should give MATE a go.
So gNome gets a million dollar donation a month or two ago from a mystery donor, and the foundation decides to increase their bureaucracy instead of spreading the much needed funds to various gnome projects? It's a shit foundation that enriches and expands it own administration rather than allocate the funds raised from donations where they could be of the most benefit to the project.
BTW, do mystery donors have to agree and sign the Gnome code of conduct before their money is accepted? No? Didn't think so.
Who is the bigger dumb ass? OP or the anon quoting from the idiotic Billy Madison?
(Hint: it's you, anon)
Baaawww more.
At least step up your game and quote from a smarter and actually talented source like Pauly Shore. I think his witticisms are more speed, buddy.
- they got a bunch of money
- the lazy fruits running the project need a way to funnel it back to themselves
- they quickly invent a bunch of positions, saying they "need" them
- nobody who uses GNOME or has worked on GNOME thinks any of those positions is necessary
- they will advertise the positions briefly, before giving them to completely unqualified friends
- the GTK dev will introduce more dependencies
Better roll up your sleeves and get cracking, then, bucko. F/OSS isn't made to order.
You seem to be very focused on homosexual acts.. Methinks thou doth protest too much....
I'd be willing to bet you're the type of a person who beats up a homosexual, AFTER you have sex with him, in some vain attempt to prove you aren't gay.
To invent a system that ignored the users' needs?
No one I know uses GNOME3. We've moved onto better things.
Breaking everything.
And requiring everything else to be rewritten. Again.
It’s funny how we haven’t really moved that far beyond what gnome 1 could do.
I guess it’s hard when we throw everything out every decade for new, shiny.
I've always liked those pointy red hats!
I used to be a fan. It seemed like Gnome got better with every update.
Then came Gnome 3. I hated it right away, it seemed far inferior to Gnome-2 in every way.
None-the-less, I tried to like it. I thought I might like it if I got used to used to it.
But is just sucked too badly.
Now I use MATE, which is far superior, IMO. Never looked back.
No open positions in the "Inclusion & Diversity" department? Damn, & not even any openings in the "Code of Conduct" compliance & enforcement department!!! Double-damn!