The GNOME Foundation Is Hiring (gnome.org) 68
"The GNOME Foundation is pleased to be able to offer paid employment to exceptional people who have the drive to help us complete our mission," reads a new announcement. Gnome.org explains:
Today, July 6th 2018, the GNOME Foundation has announced a number of positions it is recruiting for to help drive the GNOME project and Free Software on the desktop.
As previously announced, this has been made possible thanks to a generous grant that the Foundation has received, enabling us to accelerate this expansion. "These positions are key to ensuring that the Foundation remains sustainable and that we are able to support the community in key areas," said Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.
The Foundation is currently recruiting for four posts:
As previously announced, this has been made possible thanks to a generous grant that the Foundation has received, enabling us to accelerate this expansion. "These positions are key to ensuring that the Foundation remains sustainable and that we are able to support the community in key areas," said Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.
The Foundation is currently recruiting for four posts:
- Development Coordinator. This will ensure that we receive sufficient funds to continue our work delivering free software.
- Program Coordinator. The Program Coordinator will free up time from those involved in organizational, administrative and logistical problems.
- Devops/Sysadmin. The systems and services we run need proper maintenance and care. As Flathub [An app store and build service for Linux] continues to grow, more support is needed to achieve this.
- GTK+ core developer. GTK+ is core to our entire platform. Investing in development and maintenance of this toolkit will benefit the whole GNU/Linux ecosystem.
"The Foundation is keen to hear from any person who is interested in applying for one of these posts."
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Wow, "paid employment". How gracious of them (Score:2)
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GNOME people think they're exceptional (Score:1)
or to people who think that they're exceptional?
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Exceptional is also an euphemism for mentally retarded. So...
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Uhm, you should have warned us before linking to a SFW Oglaf page. And the actual page is here [oglaf.com] rather than some Wikia stuff that fails to load.
complete? (Score:3)
>" to exceptional people who have the drive to help us complete our mission"
Is the mission ever actually "complete"? Besides, sometimes it seems the mission is just to change things constantly in a way that irritates as many users as possible.
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sometimes it seems the mission is just to change things constantly in a way that irritates as many users as possible.
Have you considered that perhaps irritating as many users as possible is the mission? What better way to destroy something than to change it into something awful? #NoYouAreAConspiracyNut ;)
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>"Gnome is a special case, where we know in the foreseeable future that its GUI will consist of a single big button labeled NO ."
LOL!
Well, "no" + "me" = nome
Three Chiefs (Score:2)
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Yeah, I just had a phone interview where it became quickly apparent their “development” group was like that. Person who called me had a mid-level title with “developer” in the name, but it was immediately clear he didn’t actually know squat about coding (and he said as much). Then he proceeded to ask me questions which should have been clear from either reading my resume or the responses I’d sent to his follow-up emails - seriously obvious stuff.
When you’ve only got
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Sometimes people fail obvious questions. Even about stuff they put on their resume.
This wasn’t a “let’s see if you really have the skills you claim” type of question - and, as I said, the guy wasn’t a developer so he couldn’t have determined that anyway.
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Remember when somebody sunk $40 million into Gnome and ended up with one new theme?
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Maybe this one [wikipedia.org]
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If they have enough programmer-volunteers, it might make sense
Gratuitous sarcasm (Score:1)
No skin color/number of sexual identities/missing limb requirement to be hired ? :D
Well, people are free to (legally) do what they want with their money but there are plenty of DE's that could use some resources. Gnome 2 was nice though. I should give MATE a go.
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They should just get rid of all the morons they currently have & hire the MATE team.
mission? (Score:2)
To invent a system that ignored the users' needs?
No one I know uses GNOME3. We've moved onto better things.