Re: Quit IBM NZ and work on OSS full time?

[Antony Stubbs <an...@gmail.com>]

Hi guys - a funny thing happened, following these posts, as some of you may
have realised by now ;)

http://stubbisms.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/aaaaand-were-done/


Eelco Hillenius wrote:
> 
>> If you don't mind my asking - where are you from? And btw, you should
>> have
>> just come straight to the South Island of NZ, that's much nicer than Ozi
>> ;)
> 
> I'm Dutch, but live in the US (Seattle) now. My Australian adventures
> where a life time ago :-) And NZ is definitively high on my list,
> though it might be a few years before I actually make it there.
> 
>> Hmm, yes I plan to put some more time into the blog and I'm going to be
>> giving my talk on Scala next week at the Auckland JUG which I'm quite
>> looking forward to - I'm on after Ben from Spring :)
> 
> NIce. Maybe you can open up a nice combining Scala with Wicket. Some
> people have been experimenting in that direction already (see
> http://technically.us/code for instance).
> 
>> That's the cool thing about OSS eh? You can telecommute from anywhere in
>> the
>> world!
> 
> Yep. But you might want to get paid for it as well, which can be a bit
> harder. Most people do open source in their spare time, or as part of
> the projects they work if they are consumers of the same project.
> 
> Eelco
> 
> 


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