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In 2008-2009, he was a MySQL Fellow and Sun DE at Sun Microsystems. He was working in Sun CTO Lab under Sun's CTO Greg Papadopoulos.
For 12 years (1983 – 1995) Monty was a Developer for Tranfor Data AB, Software Architect, TCX Datakonsult AB.
From 1981 to 1995 he was CEO of Monty Program Ab; CEO, Coder, architect and user of UNIREG (The origin of MySQL).
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- 1. How to Get a Soft ware Job w/o Experience Charles Anderson andersc@wou.edu cander@westernskiesweb.com
- 2. About Me 25 years experience in industry - mostly smaller companies including 4 startups Open source user since the mid-80s - some minor contributions
- 3. Catch-22 To get a job, you need experience To get experience, you need a job
- 4. Solution Join an open-source soft ware project Works even if you want to work at a closed-source company Source: New Yorker Magazine
- 5. Examples from Python Brian Rosner - “new forms admin” project lead for Django Eric Holscher - screencasts and blog entries about testing Django apps Georg Brandl - Werkzeug and pocoo.org
- 6. Mad Skilz 4 The Man Real world tools for real world problems Know how to work on a (dist.) team Tools: SCM, build, testing, mailing lists Code and documentation been reviewed Have real examples to point to Can take criticism - peer reviews
- 7. How to Participate Participate in mailing list discussions Use/test code and report bugs Write documentation Find a bug or feature and implement it Start your own (sub)project
- 8. How to Find a Project A tool you’re already using - any language or platform A tool you wish you had Directories: Fresh Meat, Source Forge, Google Code, Java.net FLOSS Weekly & Java Posse podcasts
- 9. Rock Star Student Google Summer of Code: Google pays students to work on open-source projects
- 10. Conclusion Working on an open-source project provides “real world” experience Demonstrates motivation, self- startitude Do it now - better than video games Put it on your resume, but you might not ever need a resume
- 12. More Info Producing Open Source Soft ware Karl Fogel Free at http:// producingoss.com