- To: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <sridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [CTTE] Re: [activities] FLOSS careers panel @ SLUG
- From: "Silvia Pfeiffer" <silviapfeiffer1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 16:56:00 +1000
- Cc: SLUG Committee <committee@xxxxxxxxxxx>, SLUG Activities <activities@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sounds good to me!
S.
On 8/3/07, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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