Living in the u.s looking for experience so I thought to do contract work through lemmy ie Tell me a project you'd like me to build, I build it. What do you gain? A software you want maybe you diddnt have time to build, what do I gain? Experience to put on my resume instead of just projects to say I was a contractor for x person (you) also I won't put your real name I'll put the software name. Or i can contribute to your open source long term. Should I make this request on forums or blogs ? Or do you guys think this might be a dead end ?
I want experience and you want software (maybe)
2 months ago by BrainThinkerMan to c/cs_career_questions
BrainThinkerMan 1 point 2 months ago
Yeah I think the hard part is finding which code to work on
abbadon420 2 points 2 months ago
I just found stapi.co, a star trek api that is not very actively maintained. I had the idea to bring that project up from springboot 3.0.x to springboot 4.x.x (the most recent one). That idea came ti me an hour ago and thusfar I've froked the project,but can't get it to run yet haha
unglueclass23 1 point 2 months ago
this is why i recommend everyone going into software use linux and open source as much as possible
then you naturally find projects to contribute to
BrainThinkerMan 1 point 14 days ago
can get linux on a macbook?
BrainThinkerMan 1 point 2 months ago
Just looked in up and plc sounds interesting along with graphics, are you contributing to any repos?
vrek 1 point 2 months ago
All my experience with plc programming was done professionally with systems way outside the common person budget(for example for one of them just the software to connect to it was 5k per year). I know there are cheaper alternatives but don't have experience with them.
BrainThinkerMan 1 point 2 months ago path: 0 25295476 25297405, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
BrainThinkerMan 1 point 14 days ago
any ideas? > stapi.co
ulterno 2 points 2 months ago
Makes sense. Might be hard though.
Would be a good idea to start by adding what types of programs you are good at, i.e. the projects.
Also, there is no lack of OSS projects to work on. Take for instance:
- LibreOffice
- any of the project you might find on invent.kde.org and bugs.kde.org
- Blender
For paid work though, it becomes harder. You need to be good at advertising yourself correctly to the correct client and I (as someone who failed to advertise myself) am not the correct person to give suggestions on that.
AndrewShon 1 point 2 months ago
Hi. I’m currently looking for one person to join a small long-term collaboration team. The position requires both strong English communication skills and enough technical knowledge to understand software-related discussions, interviews, meetings, and other professional conversations.
BrainThinkerMan 1 point a month ago
andrew id love to join can i dm?
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