[HN Gopher] Show HN: Fossfox - paid opportunities for open-sourc...
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Show HN: Fossfox - paid opportunities for open-source devs
The index lists either companies that work on open-source products
or those that heavily contribute to open-source. Either way, ideal
for devs that want to keep an eye out for opportunities.
Engineering teams can post for free. Open directory of available
positions is here [0]. [0] https://github.com/fossfox-com/fossfox
Author : 4kimov
Score : 79 points
Date : 2023-06-25 19:07 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (fossfox.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (fossfox.com)
| arek_nawo wrote:
| The site looks good. On a side-note, it's really great to see
| that more and more Comercial OSS and other open-source projects
| become viable businesses. I think this is one of the best way to
| actually make open-source sustainable.
| 4kimov wrote:
| Thank you. I agree: it's a great moat against closed-source
| competitors. Plus I'm noticing more and more businesses going
| with permissive Apache 2.0 licenses (or similar), which is
| great for the public as well.
| arek_nawo wrote:
| So true. I have no problem with using and paying for a
| hosted, "cloud" version of the product if a self-hosting
| option is available. It reassures me that I can rely on this
| product, while not being vendor-locked.
|
| I've certainly seen many different licenses used in COSS
| projects, including different mixes of them. E.g.: for my
| latest project I've decided to use mainly AGPL-3.0 (a pretty
| strong copyleft license) with specific parts licensed under
| MIT.
|
| That said, my goal wasn't to limit the usage, but to be open-
| source, and provide self-hosting option (the 2 fundamental
| advantages you can provide to your users by being open-
| source, IMHO), while making sure nobody just runs the product
| on their servers, rebrands it, and sells it to others as a
| service (which, while possible with other licenses, is simply
| unethical in my book).
| matsemann wrote:
| What makes Netflix for instance eligible? Is the job specifically
| geared towards OS, or just Netflix known for releasing some of
| their stuff as OS and hence are allowed?
|
| Any thoughts about location? No idea what here is relevant for
| where I live.
| 4kimov wrote:
| Great questions, atm the index contains either companies that
| have their main products as open-source, or companies that make
| significant contributions (eg: Netflix, Cloudflare, OpenAI have
| thousands of Github stars).
|
| All jobs should be remote-friendly. There's nothing to do - if
| you see the jobs, they should be relevant to you.
|
| Some companies do have physical offices (meaning you're welcome
| to work from there), and those cities are listed if you click
| on the company's name. Right now it's region-biased per country
| -- if you scroll to the bottom and click "more" you can change
| the country. There's def still work to do (visas, non-remote,
| fine-tuning, etc).
| arp242 wrote:
| > All jobs should be remote-friendly
|
| Would be helpful to mention _where_ by the way; some
| positions are world-wide remote, others Europe or US only.
| 4kimov wrote:
| Indeed. Some companies limit to countries, some to
| timezones (+/- a few hours), some to regions like you
| mentioned, and others might have a language requirement.
| I've been trying to figure out how to surface that properly
| without making it too complicating for either the poster or
| the viewer, and I'm honestly not sure yet.
| lolinder wrote:
| > either companies that have their main products as open-
| source, or companies that make significant contributions
|
| These two categories seem pretty distinct, and the second is
| pretty nebulous. What does "significant" mean here, and how
| well does that translate to the odds of me working on an open
| source project? It's unclear why Netflix and Cloudflare are
| included but, say, Facebook and Microsoft aren't.
|
| If you're going to include both, it would be nice if there
| were a way to distinguish and filter between these two
| categories. I really like the idea of being able to see all
| the open source jobs out there, but having Netflix at the top
| of the list makes me unsure how many of these companies are
| truly open-source-first.
| rebeccaskinner wrote:
| I'm not sure about the other companies, but I see listings
| for both Netflix and OpenAI that claim to offer remote work.
| Aren't both companies notoriously remote-hostile? OpenAI in
| particular seems to have been pretty vocally anti-remote
| lately. It might be a good idea to allow some way for people
| to flag bait-and-switch remote listings.
| 4kimov wrote:
| Reporting/flagging features are def on the todo list & not
| yet there. I agree, they'd be great to have for better
| moderation. All good points.
| midzer wrote:
| There is https://www.fossjobs.net/ too
|
| edit: Linked Fossfox in
| https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/Resources
| 4kimov wrote:
| Nice, thanks for adding to resources.
| stefanos82 wrote:
| Can't read nearly anything unless I force my focus on a specific
| area.
|
| Can you enlarge the fonts please? My vision is not so good.
|
| Hint: Editing font-size to 18px (for <div class="sc-4dp71k-0
| hIhENr app-app-wrapper">) via web dev tools (Firefox) produces an
| incredible output for me.
| 4kimov wrote:
| Yeah, I might've gotten used to it by now - need to experiment
| a bit & adjust. Thank you for the feedback.
| phosfox wrote:
| I like the name.
| 4kimov wrote:
| Thank you.
| KomoD wrote:
| I don't like that the table doesn't stretch out fully and
| clicking on the "..." doesn't bring me somewhere that shows them
| all
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