Re: [activities] FLOSS careers panel @ SLUG

[Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Every now and then over the past few years (and fairly regularly in the
> last year), people ask me career development questions, with particular
> relevance to working in the FLOSS world.
>
> So, answering one of these today, I thought it might be cool to get a
> couple or more SLUG folks who have FLOSS gigs in different areas (coding,
> sysadmin, consulting, etc) to do a "careers in FLOSS" panel.
>
> Perhaps it could start with 5-10 minute backgrounders from each panelist
> and move on to general Q&A or discussion.
>
> I'd be happy to participate (and organise, if the committee wants to dump
> an action item). I'm pretty sure I'll be around for the August meeting.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jeff

I think that this is a wonderful idea. All to often I encounter people wishing 
to start a career in FLOSS, but have no idea where to begin. There are also 
many people who automatically that the best thing to do career-wise is to 
ignore FLOSS and go after the Windows jobs, even if it goes against their 
interests/ethics.

I am forwarding this to the Committee list as an agenda item for Sunday's 
meeting.


-- 
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
			- Thomas Edison

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