Ask HN: Do you get paid to contribute to a open source project?

Re:Ask HN: Do you get paid to contribute to a open source pr... by SEJeff on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:25PM (#12808819)

I've gotten hired at my last 3 jobs primarily due to open source contributions I've done in my free time for fun. Instead of focusing on doing the code for money, focus on doing it for the challenge, the fun, and most importantly the networking.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you get paid to contribute to a open source pr... by tedmiston on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:54PM (#12809203)

Were the jobs continuing to work on the open source projects, or your open source experience was just a factor for why you got the jobs?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you get paid to contribute to a open source pr... by SEJeff on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:06PM (#12810726)

A bit of both :)

I was hired based on knowledge gained from dealing with the projects, implementing features in said projects, or literally just deploying the software in large challenging environments. And this was for stuff I contributed to in my free time for fun! OSS <3

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Re:Ask HN: Do you get paid to contribute to a open source pr... by tedmiston on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:17PM (#12810801)

This is awesome! I actually just started working on my first project with Mesos + Marathon this week.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you get paid to contribute to a open source pr... by SEJeff on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:29PM (#12810900)

Great stuff as well (but due to $reasons, I'm switching to kubernetes away from Mesos/Marathon)!

https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon/issues/created_by/SEJ... :)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you get paid to contribute to a open source pr... by swordbeta on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:56PM (#12810035)

Which projects did you contribute to?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you get paid to contribute to a open source pr... by SEJeff on Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:04PM (#12810709)

The configuration management tool Saltstack:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits?author=SEJeff

And an infrastructure metrics tool named Graphite (maybe you've heard of it?):

https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/commits?aut...

https://github.com/graphite-project/whisper/commits?author=S...

https://github.com/graphite-project/carbon/commits?author=SE...

Along with being a former volunteer Sysadmin for gnome.org (yes I used to have root on gnome.org for the Linux nerds out there) and knowing a lot of open source maintainers by nature of meeting them at tech conferences.

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