I used to work with a Qt consultant, who is a frequent KDE contributor also. He mentioned that he got that job through that - he kept pushing usable contributio

I used to work with a Qt consultant, who is a frequent KDE contributor also. He mentioned that he got that job through that - he kept pushing usable contributions until one day he got a mail asking he wanted to do the same for money too. (Damm, that guy was expensive. But also, he knew his stuff, we kept him around for as long as we could - we were not the ones offering him the job, we were a customer of the company that employed him)