Joining Red Hat
April 16, 2012 7:09 pm community, freesoftware, workI’m joining Red Hat on May 2nd, where I’ll be working with the Open Source and Standards team. We’ll be working hard to help all of the projects that Red Hat contributes to kick ass at growing community. I have known several of the team from years gone past, and interviewing for the position was frankly a pleasure.
I’d like to thank Karsten Wade for thinking of me and making the connections back in February. When my future boss described the position and the team to me around then, and asked me whether I might be interested, I couldn’t help myself from saying “I think you just described my dream job”. I know you’re supposed to show restraint and play hard to get in these situations, but I got carried away.
Red Hat is one of the few companies out there that could tempt me away from independent consulting. They have a range of projects covering the server, desktop, middleware, cloud services and virtualisation. They are the top, or one of the top, corporate contributors to dozens of projects I use every day. I love the Red Hat philosophy of working with communities to make great Free and Open Source software.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that everything is roses. There are projects within Red Hat (or that Red Hat contributes heavily to) which need to improve their community processes, that could do a better job of promoting themselves, or that have hung on to former business models post-acquisition, at the expense of community growth. And it’ll be our job to fix those issues. It’ll be challenging, it’ll be a slow, incremental process. But I have no doubt that it will be very rewarding. I’m looking forward to it!
April 16th, 2012 at 7:58 pm
Congrats Dave! Glad to have you on the Red Hat team.
April 16th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Congrats !
April 16th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Congrats! Sounds like your dream job, indeed!
April 16th, 2012 at 8:41 pm
Let me guess: in the last paragraph you’re referring to JBOSS 😀
April 16th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Welcome in the french office, hope to see you from time to time in the office 🙂
April 16th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Congrats, Dave!
April 16th, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Welcome aboard!
April 16th, 2012 at 9:29 pm
Congrats and welcome!
April 16th, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Hey Dave, great news, congrats! Cheers!
April 16th, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Congrats!
April 16th, 2012 at 10:48 pm
Congrats Dave — you’ll do great on the team, and the team will be better because of your contributions 🙂
April 16th, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Congrats! Great news!
April 17th, 2012 at 1:20 am
Looking forward to seeing you in Red Hat!
Harish
April 17th, 2012 at 3:39 am
Congratulations Dave! Enjoy the red Fedora!
April 17th, 2012 at 4:31 am
Congrats Dave! & welcome.
This is some really exciting news – it’ll be great to call you my colleague.
April 17th, 2012 at 6:17 am
congrats Dave,
how long before RedHat hires the whole members of GNOME-fr ? 🙂
April 17th, 2012 at 8:00 am
Congratulations! It sounds like an amazing job, and a very good fit for you 🙂
April 17th, 2012 at 8:09 am
Congrats 😀
I think it is the perfect position for you.
April 17th, 2012 at 9:11 am
Congratulations Dave !
Looks like the Red Hat team in Rhone-Alpes is really strengthening.
April 17th, 2012 at 11:58 am
Congradulations. Welcome on board..
April 17th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Cool! Welcome to the club of most awesome people on the planet.
April 17th, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Wow, congratulations!
April 17th, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Congrats Dave! That’s fantastic news!
April 17th, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Just realized that you are joining Red Hat on exactly the same day I joined last year: May 2nd 🙂
April 17th, 2012 at 10:46 pm
congrats on the new job!
April 18th, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Well, happy anniversary Zeeshan!
April 18th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Congratulations, Dave! All the best in the new role…I am sure you do a rocking job. 🙂
April 19th, 2012 at 9:40 am
Congratulations Dave ! This is going to be a nice gig and the team will benefit from the depth of your experience.
April 21st, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Congrats. Scary amount of people joining Red Hat these days… would prefer to see the talent spread a bit more diversely around our community to be honest, but you can’t have everything…
April 22nd, 2012 at 9:33 am
Great news, Dave – and good luck 🙂