Alberto Ruiz asked me to post a message on Planet KDE about Codethink is hiring! He says:

"Codethink is currently looking for bright university graduates looking into joining a young open source company. As you may know already Codethink is an Open Source consultancy focused on helping our customers to make the most out of open source and create great innovative products with it.

So, as looking that everyone is in the hiring mode...

Yes, Collabora is hiring. So if you are passionate for open source, want join a company that share the same passion as well, want to work from any place in the world and have at least some of these skills below, then we want to know you.

• KDE
• Qt
• Qml ( Qt Quick )
• C++
• WM and Graphics(3D, GL/GLES, X, Mesa) as a plus

Consider yourself a serious KDE hacker? Don't be shy, we want to know you too ! KDE is an important part of our lives now.

Then, what are you waiting for ?
Share your hacking ninja code skills contacting us at our hiring info channel, also known as email :-).

Today was my last day at AviBit Gmbh where I have been working for almost nine years now.
Starting with development of internal tools, becoming maintainer of some of the companies main components and finally designing and supervising implementation of a versatile client framework for our surveillance products.
What a ride :)

Nine years of Qt development for multiple platforms (mainly Linux though), on a KDE powered desktop using my personal favorite editor Kate.

Nine years seeing Linux grow on both servers and workstations in an industry (air traffic control solutions) which has been using proprietary Unix on server and Windows on workstations (though some competitors also have workstation offerings Unix like systems).

It has always been interesting to see how using Qt can give a new player like AviBit a significant advantage in public tenders by reducing time to implement features (lots of code sharing between clients and servers) and by being able to deliver on the customer's platform of choice (or by being able to deliver on the previous suppliers platform of choice).

While I am really looking forward to what I will be working on next, I today felt a bit like after graduating from school, i.e. knowing that people I used to see almost every day and grown friendships with will now become people I occasionally see on purpose or incidentally run into in town.

Since my collegues at AviBit would greatly appreciate somebody taking over parts of the now increased workload, I'll ask anyone who is interested to contact me for further information.
It is a great company to work for as a graduated software engineer, but also offers students of respective subjects a good opportunity to improve your skills alongside University work.
And the problem domain has obviously ample offerings for all kinds of thesis, including hardware related stuff.

Well then, next stop weekend, three days of vacation and a short first week at my new company overlords: KDAB

It's been awhile since I've posted. 2009 was a year of reflection and figuring out a new direction. Now that 2010 is here, things have been up on the up turn. I accepted a position at RIM (Research In Motion) and look forward to exciting stuff.

This does mean however, my KDE development as it stands, must cease, at least within Plasma. I enjoyed the time I had to help KDE grow, even if it was a small bit.

Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing Adam:

                               

So some already heard the news, but just today i felt that is time to push my own message.
After 10 and a half years, i'm leaving Conectiva and of course Mandriva. Among all this years i shared all the up and downs, saw literally hundreds of colleagues leave company in all sort of situations, saw company evolution from a linux box distro to a major world linux developer, survived position changes, office changes, even building changes.
As everyone that lived all the past and current histories knows that are all to stay for life.
I arrived at Conectiva to do one of amazing hard work, which is convert an migrate the first ATM machines in the world from DOS to Linux in a stupid very short time ( bank is well know as Banrisul and you can see many pictures allover the web ). Guess what, still works, and you can see application running as today, with all post revisions. And i joined later the corporate development team at Conectiva.
But was my post assignment that created my real meaning in FLOSS, when i joined the distribution team ( the distro !! ). I will not deny that much of what i learn until now came from the guys there, some of then today found in companies that already are or starting to grow and learn FLOSS.
And was there that i get my real love for code, and in special some desktop interface called KDE.
Same thing that bring me to know the world, and many friends.
From there to now, i've been doing so many things is FLOSS that i really loose track. But this is a not ended history :-)
At Conectiva, would be unfare to say thanks for a specific person, since was not a workplace, was a family, as disfunctional with good and bad days family. But survivors.
And to Mandriva french friends, i have special thanks for Anne ( extended to her husband Erwan ) that welcome us in a moment that lot of people at .br are having doubts if merge would work and mostly to received me at their home as close friends, even with a surprise invitation to their wedding. And to Blino too, since he was a party buddy and good support at .fr side. ( yes,PLF people, i will not forget you, so no hunting me please :-). And i can say that KDE will be in very good hands at Mandriva starting November...

But now, moving forward, i'll be starting a new big life project that is called Collabora. I have no much to talk about, i'm basically on the initial lego blocks to build, and will see how my time will be there.
About the work ? Is enough to say that i will work with the things that i love to do.

So, for all Mandriva guys in Brazil, in France, and the PLF crazy people, thanks for everything. Be sure that friendship is kept forever...

Today is the first day of my employment at a wonderful company called KO GmbH. KO GmbH provides services around software dealing with office documents, notably KOffice. I'm excited to have found such an inspiring job working in Free Software.

At the KOffice 2009 Sprint in Berlin last June, I got to meet many of the KOffice developers and was impressed by the productive atmosphere. In my job at KO, I'd like to help KOffice become enterprise-ready, by which I mean, that I want help the KOffice team make a reliable and flexible office suite.

My role in the company is software architect. The business cards Tobias Hintze, our CEO, sent me just say 'architect'. That inspired me to spend some time on this first workday to pose for a picture that goes well with a dEUS song about Buckminster Fuller, the architect after whom the buckyball was named.

Listen to 'The Architect'.

What is the architect doing?
He is by the riverside

Like some other [open]SUSE developers I was casted and am now forced to look for a new day job. It could have happened in better economic times for sure. :-(

Pointers to new interesting job positions are gladly accepted. Bonus points the more they have to do with Open Source, Linux, Qt and KDE.

The confirmed rumour at least on the IRC has it that I am in process of switching my job after 5 years at OpenOffice Polska / OpenOffice Software. Much of that really interesting time was devoted to Kexi within KOffice and quite a bit to various aspects of KDE on Windows. The switch has been planned about one year ago so is largely gradual. These KDE-related tasks have been already my spare time activities since then. My will is to invest a lot there.