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Has this in any way fetched material satisfaction (in the form of a job offer or freelance work, etc.)?

apsurd 15y ago
To be honest, I started the project as a way to get my name out there in the Open Source community and ultimately make it easier to get a job, yes! I've realized my ideal job would be as a developer/Open Source evangelist/advocate/community-builder what-have-you. It's hard for me to really care about building facebook widgets or coupon-local-picto-gram social apps etc. In contrast I spend ungodly hours working on Open Source projects that deal with solving lower-level developer problems and more and more of my time is spent writing tutorials and walkthroughs of how a codebase works rather than actually writing code! So I want to work for a company that pays me to do Open Source work. I haven't really looked too deep into it but so far my ideal would be GitHub or Khan Academy. Though to answer your question, I haven't spent any time actually trying to get a job even though my work was originally based on that premise. I'm trying to make a go out of starting something of my own. If I run out of money before I can get any traction then that plan stands to reach out to my ideal companies for full-time employment. I believe 100% that I won't have much trouble getting a job, the problem is I want my ideal job, so we'll have to wait and see. I am very confident that my work on GitHub will speak for itself. That's not to say I'm some coding God, but rather I do take my code seriously with organized commits, documentation, and well-thought out design choices. I have never been to college so I am very adamant about "show don't tell" when it comes to resumes/experience/cred etc. Hopefully you will either see me leading my own company, and/or as part of the GitHub, Khan Academy, or other pro Open Source team!
- davyjones 15y ago
  Good luck to you. Well, the reason why I asked you is that I am building an open source database (Postgres only at the moment) admin tool myself (the code is on github). Just like in your case, I would like to work on that full time. Right now, I am thinking of ways to attach some kind of revenue stream.
  - apsurd 15y ago
    Good luck to you as well! I have followed your project on GitHub so will play with it when it's ready.

To be honest, I started the project as a way to get my name out there in the Open Source community and ultimately make it easier to get a job, yes! I've realized my ideal job would be as a developer/Open Source evangelist/advocate/community-builder what-have-you. It's hard for me to really care about building facebook widgets or coupon-local-picto-gram social apps etc. In contrast I spend ungodly hours working on Open Source projects that deal with solving lower-level developer problems and more and more of my time is spent writing tutorials and walkthroughs of how a codebase works rather than actually writing code! So I want to work for a company that pays me to do Open Source work. I haven't really looked too deep into it but so far my ideal would be GitHub or Khan Academy. Though to answer your question, I haven't spent any time actually trying to get a job even though my work was originally based on that premise. I'm trying to make a go out of starting something of my own. If I run out of money before I can get any traction then that plan stands to reach out to my ideal companies for full-time employment. I believe 100% that I won't have much trouble getting a job, the problem is I want my ideal job, so we'll have to wait and see. I am very confident that my work on GitHub will speak for itself. That's not to say I'm some coding God, but rather I do take my code seriously with organized commits, documentation, and well-thought out design choices. I have never been to college so I am very adamant about "show don't tell" when it comes to resumes/experience/cred etc. Hopefully you will either see me leading my own company, and/or as part of the GitHub, Khan Academy, or other pro Open Source team!

davyjones 15y ago
Good luck to you. Well, the reason why I asked you is that I am building an open source database (Postgres only at the moment) admin tool myself (the code is on github). Just like in your case, I would like to work on that full time. Right now, I am thinking of ways to attach some kind of revenue stream.
- apsurd 15y ago
  Good luck to you as well! I have followed your project on GitHub so will play with it when it's ready.