[UbuntuWomen] Introductions - Aruna Vallur

[Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 7:09 PM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 6:57 AM, स्वक्ष <svaksha at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> out from FOSS or any activities unless the company itself is a foss
>>> based one.
>> There are IT companies that employ people to work on Foss, albeit not
>> a large number.
>
>
> Yes, many big IT companies have a foss division.
> Any estimate?
>
> If we look at code contribution to free s/w projects (apart from
> Linux), then what do we see?

While it's still not the norm in technology companies in general, over
the past few years I've seen a noticeable increase in open foss
participation by major companies in the United States and Europe. I
was hired by HP back in January and all the work I do there is
directly on the foss project OpenStack, on a daily basis I am working
with with colleagues from Red Hat, IBM, AT&T and more collaboratively
on the project. Even beyond OpenStack, I have several friends who I
used to hack on projects with during nights and weekends who now have
full time jobs working on foss - a quote from an event I attended this
past weekend is becoming more true every day:

"Open source is no longer that thing you do nights and weekends
because you had to - now it's your job."
https://twitter.com/DeirdreS/status/359072659747139584

My Ubuntu work is (and always has been) a volunteer effort. However,
it's given me major opportunities in my professional career, so
investing time in it has been one of the most valuable career choices
I've made. I am also at a time in my life where I don't yet have a
family and my husband works a lot, I am quite fortunate to have a fair
amount of time after work and on weekends :)

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