http://www.appcelerant.com/effects-of-open-source-on-recruiting.html Appcelerator blog focused on helping you build your next killer mobile, desktop and web based applications Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:30:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.appcelerant.com/effects-of-open-source-on-recruiting.html/comment-page-1#comment-10083 080924 Daily Links (Sep 24, 2008) | johnsumser.com: Recruiting News and Views Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:27:10 +0000 http://www.appcelerant.com/?p=57#comment-10083 [...] Effects of Open Source on Recruiting"The introduction of open-source into a software company’s business model adds a new way to evaluate the technical accumen of potential hires. When looking to add new members to the team, no talent pool can compare with the members of that project’s open-source community. Rather than conducting a series of interviews to determine the best candidate, you can easily see who the most engaged, most insightful, and most talented community members are based on their comments, their posts, their blogs, and their code contributions." [...] [...] Effects of Open Source on Recruiting"The introduction of open-source into a software company’s business model adds a new way to evaluate the technical accumen of potential hires. When looking to add new members to the team, no talent pool can compare with the members of that project’s open-source community. Rather than conducting a series of interviews to determine the best candidate, you can easily see who the most engaged, most insightful, and most talented community members are based on their comments, their posts, their blogs, and their code contributions." [...]

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