11 Nov
2010
11 Nov
'10
5:51 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Kris C <cpczk(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I understand that a lot of you develop for free software and are passionate
at what you do. But how do you pay the bills? What do you do for a living?
Are you a student? Do you do software development just as a hobby, or do
you want to make a living doing this kind of work?
The reason I ask this is because I am curious about what kind of
backgrounds a free software developer has. As for me, I am a student
majoring in Music and minoring in Computer Science. I got the idea of
writing this email, actually, because Google had an internship panel at my
school. Google just loooooves open source and those involved. It sounds
like Google has quite a friendly and cooperative working atmosphere, and
they treat their employees very well. Yeah, I'd like to work for Google,
but who doesn't right? :)
-Kris
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Hi Kris,
I'm a student, and I do have a very part time job programming things other
than linux audio, but that's not necessarily the career I'm going into. Any
audio programming I do is entirely in my own time for my enjoyment and the
enjoyment of others. Essentially it boils down to "I want X. What? It
doesn't exist yet? Well let's see if I can create it." The reason I became
involved in linux audio development is because I like making music with
linux, and also, DSP algorithms are *cool*.
Jeremy