How to become FreeBSD developer

MorgothV8

MorgothV8

Hi, just one simple question. I'm programmer/software developer, I was born in 1982. Programming education, high school etc. I'm using FreeBSD since ~1999/2000 ~ 3.X -> 4.0. Currently I'm living in Poland but working remotely for US company - and that is OK for me. I've also been on Polish Polar Expedition (wintering 2011-2012). Just being curious - is it possible to work for my favorite OS - and I mean as a paid job - unfortunately I have not enough time to do it as a hobbyist (family, work, no free time). I have (in my opinion) quite big UNIX experience and writing kernel drivers, ports etc. would not be a problem - I'm using FreeBSD as Host OS long time ago and all my code is written on this system - currently not OS related: PHP/JavaScript and mobile device, but some time ago used a lot of C/C++/OpenGL and even GAS. Previous developenemt was also LAMP stack and alternate PowerBuilder projects - they run in VirtualBox and earlier in VMware port on FreeBSD. I'm also familiar with all world builds, cross compiling etc on 10-CURRENT etc.
 
I think a lot of people would love to get paid to work full time on FreeBSD. You could always try a fundraising drive. These drives were successful, but they were done by long-time, well-known contributors to the project.

It doesn't exactly sound like what you are looking for, but have you looked at the FreeBSD Jobs mailing list? You could always become a sysadmin. They have all kinds of free time to do whatever they want, like work on FreeBSD.
 
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