Igalia
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Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions for companies across the globe. Our work and contributions are present in many projects such as GStreamer, Mesa 3D, WebKit, Chromium, etc.

Igalia
Feb 21, 2024 at 2:31pmWeb
Show threadDr Suzanne she/herFeb 21, 2024
@igalia can people outside of the EU apply?
Show threadSatoshi S.Feb 21, 2024

@DrSuzanne @igalia

I have the same question.

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It is remote-friendly. People can participate wherever they live. ""

I guess it's open to anywhere.

Show threadbkardellFeb 21, 2024

@sato1108ss @DrSuzanne @igalia Hello - yes!

People at Igalia work all over the globe :) (I am in the US, for example)

Show threadDr Suzanne she/herFeb 21, 2024
@bkardell @sato1108ss @igalia Wonderful. Thank you.
Show threadCassio PereiraFeb 21, 2024
@igalia Can people working at other companies but not in software development apply?
Show threadSamiFeb 21, 2024

@igalia this is super cool but it's worth noting that the compensation is €7,000/450h = €15.55/h = (US)$16.82/h over the course of 3-6 months. that works out to full-time over the 3 months or half-time over 6 months at a reasonable minimum wage.

still very cool, but it's important to acknowledge the fiscal limitations imposed by that.

Show threadSamiFeb 21, 2024
@igalia presumably the participants will be contractors as well, which in the US means covering one's own insuance as well as the portion of FICA that's normally covered by one's employer, so there's a meaningfully higher tax burden on top of what one would normally pay at a minimum wage job.
Show threadThomas Michael SemmlerFeb 21, 2024
@igalia just for my understanding, why are you writing „free software job“? I have a hard time understanding this term. Are some companies expecting that people… pay to work there? 😅
Show threadfumnanyaFeb 22, 2024

@nachtfunke @igalia they mean "free software" as in open-source, the kind of software that's publicly available and modifiable by anyone, like the major browser engines, for instance -- chromium, webkit, gecko

wikipedia has a page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

The Free Software Definition - Wikipedia

Show threadThomas Michael SemmlerFeb 22, 2024
@fumnanya @igalia ah, that makes sense. I totally couldn't read it like that. Maybe that is why the "Free" is capitalised? Not an english speaking native. To me this reads as "a software/it job that is free" but it is intended to read as "an it job about free software"
Show threadcaitpFeb 22, 2024
@fumnanya @nachtfunke Thank you for helping to clarify this :) 🙏
Show threadLisaFeb 23, 2024
@igalia doyou hire outside the us?