Re: Are devs who work on or use open source happier in their employment?

  On 9/23/10 7:13 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny wrote:
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>> But I see also extra advantages, probably more related to the fact I'm working on an ASF project :
>> - First of all, and it may perfectly well be specific to France, a country where people value diplomas, and other things like 'he wrote a book on the subject !', being an ASF developer help you to get a social status in the development team you are working in. In other words, you are likely to be a star (that always puzzled me because I'm not better than I was before starting working on an OSS project, or slightly (thanks to what I have learned at the ASF !), and also because I was certainly not better than many of my co-workers who are not involved in OSS).
> I was just talking with a friend yesterday, and fellow committer, who said he is a much better programmer since contributing.  Of course, it makes sense.  If your underwear is on display for all to see, you sure better make sure it is clean!

Let me pick a better word than 'better' to express exactly what I had in 
mind when I wrote my sentence : 'talented'. Sure, I learned a lot and 
I'm a better coder now, but that does not make me more talented :)

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Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
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