[ltp] OT: Linux Jobs in Europe (Germany)

[Peter Lemken]

On Saturday 08 March 2008 17:12:28 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008, Philippe Cl=E9ri=E9 wrote:
> > Just how far are you casting your net?
>
> Indeed.  If you are casting your net as far as over the Atlantic, and the
> pay is good (and includes friendly terms for people who do pro-bono
> free-software work on the side), you could even manage to snatch a Linux
> kernel/Debian developer/electrical engineer that takes care of the
> thinkpad-acpi driver ;-)

I had actually hoped to have made this clear enough in my original posting:=
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want to reach my target audience irrespective of any geographical or=20
demographic context and would like to encourage international applications=
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from any part of the world.

The only culprit is the language. It is imperative that you speak at least=
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some basic German and that you are willing to expand your command of the=20
language in due course in order to be able to follow meetings, read mails a=
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reply to them and communicate in a friendly way to those on staff not worki=
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in a technical area.

Since the company's technical infrastructure is based on Open Source=20
solutions, you can most certainly expect a very welcoming attitude for=20
contributions to OSS projects.

As to the financial side, I believe that the company offers very attractive=
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conditions. Most overseas candidates have an incredulous look when they hea=
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about the usual 5-6 weeks of paid vacations in a German company and the=20
current exchange rate of the Euro vs Dollar makes moving to Europe quite=20
attractive not only to Americans.

Anyway, let me take this opportunity and thank all those who have inquired=
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about details via e-Mail and those who actually decided to submit their=20
applications.


Peter Lemken
Stuttgart