Next week I'll take a couple of hours out of my current madcap schedule to go and talk at City College Norwich, where the Foundation Degree Business Computing students are just completing an assignment on Open Source. One of the things I hope to impress upon them is how experience in Open Source development (and the resultant peer recognition) is an increasingly valuable metric in the modern IT skills market.
Of course, it helps to have people like Matt Assay reporting that working for an Open Source company is the best way to boost your career. And of course I'm speaking out of enlightened self-interest: more students with Open Source skills means more potential hires for Sourcesense, and of course more individuals involved in the Open Source projects that I care about.
Meanwhile, what about choosing between a startup and an established business? Which is the bigger risk? It depends on whether you want a life-changing journey or not, and it's a debate I have with friends and colleagues frequently. Next week will also mark the seventh anniversary of me leaving big companies to work on building something different, so look out for some interesting news ...
Posted by savs at April 12, 2007 1:35 PM