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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 30 2017, @02:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-in-your-github-repository? dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

On a scale of one to five, how are your open source skills? If you picked a number below four, you might want to do something about it. According to the Linux Foundation's annual Open Source Jobs Report released on Wednesday, employment prospects for open source workers continues to rise.

Consider this: 86 percent of open source professionals believe that just knowing open source has advanced their careers, with 52 percent saying it would be easy to find another job. If that doesn't wet your whistle -- only 27 percent report not receiving a recruiting call in the past six months.

[...] Three major factors are pushing most companies' IT hiring plans, with company growth heading the list at 60 percent. After that, it's more open source specific, with 42 percent citing an increasing use of open source, followed by 30 percent who said that open source is becoming core to their IT needs.

[...] With data centers increasing their use of open source technologies, it's not surprising that a 77 percent majority of the tech professionals surveyed said the ability to architect solutions based on open source software topped the list of valuable skills. Also important: experience with open source development tools such as GitHub, and knowledge of new tools. The pros also predict that next year, employment opportunities will grow for those with skills in cloud technologies, big data and analytics, containers, and security.

Source: http://windowsitpro.com/open-source/demand-open-source-skills-continues-grow


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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday August 31 2017, @02:15AM

    by anubi (2828) on Thursday August 31 2017, @02:15AM (#561919) Journal

    Open Source skills are skills that anyone may use without paying you for it. ;-)

    So true. If the guy wants to spend several years of his life to build the experience base you have, and the ability to make something with it, fine!

    Anyone is free to learn legal skills as well. Might take a lifetime of work to do what an experienced attorney can do in a few hours.

    But if it means that much to save on the attorney, fine. For meaningless stuff, that is usually the best way to go. But if you are staking something critical on it, ( like a family trust ), you might want to have professional assistance, lest someone else who knows what they are doing come in and eat your lunch.

    Open source has never been about keeping everyone else out of it.

    Open source is about holding everything open so as to develop a skillset where you know what you are doing. Not just how to use it. More than that. A good open source guy can *create* from scratch anything he needs.

    Comparing a closed source guy to an open source guy is like comparing a fast-food restaurant chef to a real one. One can pick up his trade from a few "how to install it" courses and know how to serve preportioned meals from a pack. And is totally dependent on timely shipments of prepackaged servings. The latter can use anything he gets his hands on to prepare a meal.

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    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]