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The GNOME Foundation Is Hiring (gnome.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the job-queue dept.

"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:
  • 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."


18 of 68 comments (clear)

  1. Wow, "paid employment". How gracious of them by JoeyRox · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:Wow, "paid employment". How gracious of them by jpaine619 · · Score: 1

      Back to the homosexual acts again, eh?

      Seriously, what percentage of your day do you think about cocks and balls? 90%? Or is that number waaaay too low?

  2. GNOME people think they're exceptional by SurenEnfiajyan · · Score: 1

    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

    or to people who think that they're exceptional?

    1. Re:GNOME people think they're exceptional by Stormwatch · · Score: 1

      Exceptional is also an euphemism for mentally retarded. So...

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  3. complete? by markdavis · · Score: 2

    >" 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.

    1. Re:complete? by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 1

      sometimes it seems the mission is just to change things constantly in a way that irritates as many users as possible.

      Have you considered that perhaps irritating as many users as possible is the mission? What better way to destroy something than to change it into something awful? #NoYouAreAConspiracyNut ;)

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    2. Re:complete? by mangastudent · · Score: 2

      Gnome is a special case, where we know in the foreseeable future that its GUI will consist of a single big button labeled NO .

    3. Re:complete? by markdavis · · Score: 1

      >"Gnome is a special case, where we know in the foreseeable future that its GUI will consist of a single big button labeled NO ."

      LOL!

      Well, "no" + "me" = nome

  4. Three Chiefs by theshowmecanuck · · Score: 1

    One Indian. Seems like a good use of money.

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    1. Re:Three Chiefs by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 2

      Yeah, I just had a phone interview where it became quickly apparent their “development” group was like that. Person who called me had a mid-level title with “developer” in the name, but it was immediately clear he didn’t actually know squat about coding (and he said as much). Then he proceeded to ask me questions which should have been clear from either reading my resume or the responses I’d sent to his follow-up emails - seriously obvious stuff.

      When you’ve only got a half-dozen or so people in a development group, there’s really not a good reason that should include two tiers of non-coders.

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    2. Re:Three Chiefs by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      Remember when somebody sunk $40 million into Gnome and ended up with one new theme?

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    3. Re:Three Chiefs by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

      Sometimes people fail obvious questions. Even about stuff they put on their resume.

      This wasn’t a “let’s see if you really have the skills you claim” type of question - and, as I said, the guy wasn’t a developer so he couldn’t have determined that anyway.

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    4. Re:Three Chiefs by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 1

      If they have enough programmer-volunteers, it might make sense

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    5. Re:Three Chiefs by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      Maybe this one

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  5. Re:Oglaf comic by KiloByte · · Score: 1

    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.

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  6. Re:Gratuitous sarcasm by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    They should just get rid of all the morons they currently have & hire the MATE team.

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  7. Re: RUSSIAN BACKED GNOMES by jpaine619 · · Score: 1

    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.

  8. mission? by iggymanz · · Score: 1

    To invent a system that ignored the users' needs?

    No one I know uses GNOME3. We've moved onto better things.