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"This is ideal, and I've only ever seen it once" I think this is happening more and more. At GitLab we hired more than 10 people that first contributed to the
by sytse 10y ago
"This is ideal, and I've only ever seen it once" I think this is happening more and more.
At GitLab we hired more than 10 people that first contributed to the project voluntarily. Including our CI lead Kamil and VP of Engineering Stan Hu. Our last hire that joined this way was Clement Ho that was an MVP (most valuable volunteer) on August 22nd, 2016.
- jedberg 10y agoI guess it gets interesting when you're an open source company. It could be argued that the people you hire fall into category 2 (doing things the company wants), but since the company is driven by community desire, it's sort of a nice hybrid of 1 and 2. :) (BTW I love GitLab and you guys are doing!)
- sytse 10y agoThanks for your kind words! Number 2 is: "you are working less on things that are great for the community and more on things that are great for your company" => I hope that at GitLab everything we do is good for the community. There is a split between working on great things that end up in the community edition and great things that end up in the enterprise edition (proprietary). Part of the community is using the enterprise edition, so those things are good for the community but at a reduced level. But I hope they are always things everyone can get excited about.
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- connorshea 10y agoI was one of the people who first contributed to GitLab voluntarily, its been quite awesome :) Another great example of a company like this is Sentry[1], which is fully open source, although I'm not sure if they've hired anyone from the community so far. [1]: https://sentry.io/welcome/ https://sentry.io/welcome/
- zegerjan 10y agoThe CEO of Sentry said recently in a changelog episode[1] this did not happen so far. [1] https://changelog.com/rfc/8 https://changelog.com/rfc/8