http://www.advogato.org/person/jrowan/ Advogato blog for jrowan en-us mod_virgule Sat, 18 May 2013 10:22:53 GMT Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:10:01 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/jrowan/diary.html?start=0 http://www.advogato.org/person/jrowan/diary.html?start=0 <P>Talk about a week. Has anyone else had the problem of keeping recruiters straight? I've had so many call me this week I can't keep track of them. I hung up the phone a few minutes ago and thought to myself, "That lady wants me to call her back if this other group doesn't call in 2 days, but I don't know who <strong>she</strong> is!" <P>Well I do know she is from Oracle Corp. or at least one of the offices. The other trouble is my resume is being offered by recruiters to at least 5 different divisions of Oracle. Which may bring about a most ludicrous bidding war between divisions (well, okay, I am hoping for that to happen). I am trying to get myself involved in OSS as much as possible right now for several reasons: 1) I believe in it; 2) I've taken advantage of many OSS packages and it's time to give back; 3) I think I have the aptitude, at this point in my career, to contribute something valuable and not embarrass myself (I guess we will see about that third point). <P>At any rate, my impending lay-off is consuming much of my time and will continue to do so until I have a new contract in hand. But, I refuse to spend more than six hours a day on that. I will be devoting two hours a day, early on, to open source and another four hours a day on my current pet project building a MUD. I've got some details on the trials and tribulations at <A HREF="http://jynsoerth.ck1.option.net">my home page</a> and I am trying desperately to get it to the point where contributors can build using the OLC. At that point I will let it slide for a few months and devote the majority of my spare time to oss.