The Goldfish Chronicles

And now I get to crow about the new job

On January 2nd I start my employment at SourceLabs, Inc. where I will (as the site says) provide “Dependable Open Source Systems for enterprise IT organizations”. Part of my day will involve supporting customers with open-source project problems, part will involve researching more into those projects (ie: writing articles, swik entries, and good old school hacking I presume) and part just let’s me sit down and work on Apache things.

I know what you’re thinking…. “Support?” Ugh, Ick, Ptui — Relax. Have some kool-aid Support at SourceLabs isn’t about someone reading off a FAQ and asking questions on the mailing lists for customers, it’s about having a nomadic open-source developer who’ll go digging into the supported project, hunt down bugs and work with its community to get the bugfixes worked into the trunk instead of forcing a customer onto an internal branch, with an advantage being that said nomadic developer often passes by this watering hole, so not only do the locals know them, but they know the locals and the local customs.

Being able to work on Apache things in the day is going to be lots of fun. It’ll open up time in the evenings for essential things that were being blocked. Like erm…more Apache things.

Lastly, and the one my wife is most enthused with, the job is in Seattle. So at some point in the near future we’ll be moving to Seattle. Given that the temperatures in Louisville have been sub-zero for the last few days, and there’s an evil layer of snow-become-ice on the ground, I can’t get to Seattle’s weather soon enough.

So that’s what the future holds:

SourceLabs, Seattle, “have Source will Patch”. I’m excited

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