In other news, #REBOL still exists. I remember learning about it back in... 1998? The surprising thing is that it apparently survived all the way from 1997 to the end of 2012 without being #opensource. The whole idea of writing software in someone else's proprietary #language just sounds so... incredibly #offputting.
It's pretty demoralizing to never get any responses from anyone but @lnxw48a1, but I am nothing if not persistent.
I realize I could interact more and gain more followers and I could post more. Maybe I'll give Mastodon a shot a see if I get more interaction there. I don't think I've joined an instance but maybe I have.
Minimum of five years of software development and design or systems administration or level 3-4 technical support experience. Technical knowledge, skills and expertise in complex infrastructure, web-based software and enterprise software Understanding of software best practices; #SDLC, #SCM and #Agile development principles. Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills
Role: Open Source Staff Engineer/Solutions Architect Location: #Louisville, #CO or #Minneapolis, #MN
Position Summary: Perforce is seeking a Open Source Staff Engineer/Solutions Architect to join our OpenLogic team. As a member of the support team, you’ll be responsible for assisting our clients to work through their technical questions on open source including ‘how to’, trouble shooting and recommendations on product use. Additionally, based on needs of our customers, you will be involved in presenting training classes (both onsite and remote depending on need of the client); short-term professional service engagements to assist with architect and design solutions; working on internal projects; and enhancing current skills by continuing to learn new open source technologies.
OpenLogic provides enterprise services for hundreds of open source projects — including #OpenJDK, #Kubernetes, CentOS, and #MariaDB — so you can boost efficiency and savings with free software, while cutting risk.
Responsibilities: Interact with end users on technical problems. Tier 1, 2 and 3 support for CentOS and related open source products. Drive resolution of those problems, which include: Open source software issues. Questions around open source software usage. Questions around use and best practices. Review of the architecture and design where software is implemented. Conduct professional services and training engagements. Research, understand, and advocate open source software. Interact with various open source communities. Drive early resolution of issues. Be a part of the on-call rotation. Present knowledge via articles, blogs, and conference presentations. May require 15% travel while completing on-site consulting.
Position Summary: Perforce is seeking a CentOS Support Engineer to join our OpenLogic team (that's my new team, but this is not my specific position), responsible for providing 24x7 break fix support and services on Open Source technologies to our OpenLogic customers. This position will work closely with members from Support, Sales and Professional Services to assist in resolving a wide variety of customer issues. OpenLogic provides enterprise services for hundreds of open source projects — including OpenJDK, Kubernetes, CentOS, and MariaDB — so you can boost efficiency and savings with free software, while cutting risk.
Responsibilities:
Interact with end users on technical problems. Tier 1, 2 and 3 support for CentOS and related open source products. Drive resolution of those problems, which include: Open source software issues. Questions around #opensource software usage. Questions around use and best practices. Review of the architecture and design where software is implemented. Conduct professional services and training engagements. Research, understand, and advocate open source software. Interact with various open source communities. Drive early resolution of issues. Make strategic contributions to the CentOS core and surrounding ecosystem, provide bug fixes ahead of the community where needed Be a part of the on-call rotation. Present knowledge via articles, blogs, and conference presentations.
Requirements:
Technical knowledge, skills and expertise in complex infrastructure, web-based software and enterprise software Strong knowledge of the Linux kernel and system architecture. Understanding of software best practices; SDLC, #SCM and Agile development principles. Ability to develop with C/C++ in a #UNIX environment. Utilization of common Linux C/C++ build tools such as gcc. Solid understanding of CentOS 6.x and 7.x and included frameworks like firewalld, systemd, etc. Strong #RHEL/CentOS background required #Debian/ #Ubuntu, #SUSE/ #openSUSE/ #SLES, other distro background a bonus C, shell scripting, #perl, etc Virtual Machine experience with qemu/kvm, #Azure, #AWS, VirtualBox, #Vagrant General experience such as: radius/ #Kerberos, lda, ipa/idm, monitoring, vpn, containers, centralized systems management, automation (ansible, chef, puppet, etc), version control (git, etc) or security hardening (CIS, STIGS, PCI-DSS, etc) Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills Knowledge of open source packages Database administration; #postgresql/ #mysql/ #mariadb experience very desirable Experience with Linux distro package building (#rpm, #deb, ipkg, etc) preferred Existing contributions to the CentOS community a major plus
So why don't they liberate the source code for Windows and Office under free licenses? I suspect it's because they are embarrassed to let the world's programmers audit the paper machet of patched patches they've been selling as "professional" software all these years.
Meet our special guest🌟 @AmandineLePape@twitter.com COO & co-founder at @NewVectorHQ@twitter.com , Co-founder at The @matrixdotorg@twitter.com Foundation
Are you an #opensource enthusiast, possibly highly interested in #federated and #distributed systems? Would you like to work in a global environment pushing the openly governed #Matrix protocol and related open source software forward?
I've been with these people for almost a year now and I've not looked back one single day. Highly recommend checking out the positions if you're looking for a change.