Job Search for a Development Mentor
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks an individual – or individuals part (or full) time – to be:
a Development Mentor
to start work as soon as possible. The role requires the following:
- Self-starting, remote working experience
- Experience contributing to FLOSS communities
- C++ or LibreOffice coding experience
- Excellent communication skills
The role is a for a minimum of 10 hours per week, and includes amongst other items:
Supporting existing mentors in the LibreOffice community including:
- Building relationships between existing mentors and new contributors
- Identifying and onboarding new contributors
- Affirming and encouraging their contribution
- Building initial relationships with them
- Encouraging them to join IRC to meet the team
- Introducing them to domain experts for deeper learning
- Helping to educate new contributors by
- Positively reviewing their code contributions
- Introducing them to our tooling & culture
- Attracting new contributors by promoting the project
Previous experience with such tasks is highly welcome, so is using free software. Speaking and writing English reasonably well is a mandatory requirement.
The work time during the day is flexible, apart from some fixed times when availability is required (e.g. during meetings, which usually take place at 14:00 or 15:00 UTC once per week).
TDF welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
As always, TDF will give some preference to individuals who have previously shown a commitment to TDF, including but not limited to members of TDF. Not being a member, or never having contributed before, does not exclude any applicants from consideration.
TDF is looking forward to receiving your applications, including curriculum vitae, your financial expectations, and the earliest date of your availability, via e-mail to Florian Effenberger at floeff@documentfoundation.org no later than April 11, 2017. You can encrypt your message via PGP/GnuPG.
If you haven’t received feedback by May 16, 2017, your application could not be considered.