Notices by Tom "spot" Callaway :fedora: (spot@social.afront.org)

In their initial testing, they found Linux to be...too reliable. They didn't want customers to assume that every text message would go through, because they weren't willing to guarantee that, so they asked me if we would make them a custom kernel module.
2/5

A little story from the "old days of open source": when I was a solutions architect for Red Hat, we visited a large telecommunications company, who wanted to consider moving their SMS infrastructure from UNIX to Linux, but they had a problem.
1/5

It feels weird to say this, but my team at AWS (Open Source Strategy & Marketing) is hiring for a PM role!

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2429652/program-manager-for-open-source-community-outreach-and-engagement-aws-open-source-strategy-and-marketing

TLDR: This is an Program Manager III (L6) role. Key responsibilities are event management, content and training development, and open source foundation & community engagement work.

Plus: you get to work with me... wait come back, that's a good thing.

Biggest downside: You gotta work from Seattle or Portland (in the office), but there is relocation assistance.

If this is interesting to you, and we know each other, hit me up for a referral. If we don't know each other, apply directly!

Reshare appreciated.

#opensource #hiring #jobs

@amye you are not wrong. I lodged my complaint. It was noted but it did not change anything.

Here's a high quality shot of the "Proprietary Software Disclaimer" from my #FOSSY presentation slides:

https://spot.fedorapeople.org/FOSSY-Open_Source_Anti-Patterns.odp

Note: I did not list all of the software that AWS (my employer) uses, I just listed the software that _I_ use and mentioned my employer also uses a mix of Proprietary and FOSS software.

Omissions from this list:
* Networking specifics beyond my laptop (no offense, but I don't want you folks crawling around my network)
* Firmware for my monitors (forgot them)

@mattl their claim was that they wanted to align to the calendar year, along with a bunch of marketing fluff.

@mattl I think they skipped from S10 to S20.

A brief rant on packaging: I despise dynamic packaging which is no longer easily legible by humans. I like not having an giant abstraction layer between the recipe and the dish. I like knowing that a thing happened because a command string I wrote down was run, not because that whole section of the spec was evaluated from a single %macro.

But some of your spec files are long!

Yup. And the reader can understand every line without a conversion tool.

Now get off my lawn, its time for my old man nap.