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Středa leden 04, 2006

Open Job Position: NetBeans Community Manager

There is an open job position of a NetBeans community manager. We're especially looking for adepts among the NetBeans community, but people outside the community can apply as well. This is the job official description:

NetBeans Community Manager will work closely with Engineering and Marketing groups to build a vibrant community and ensure an appreciation and understanding of the community's requirements.

The Community Manager will understand when to actively engage with the community and how to connect disparate groups with compatible goals. Serving as a key member of the marketing team you will define and implement an Open Source Community Plan.
Create, initiate and drive tactics targeting users, evangelists, universities/colleges, open source projects and community influencers
Actively participate in on-line forums and newsgroups
Deliver presentations at external open source events and to internal teams

Requirements:

International experience (working in or with multi-cultural environments)
Knowledge of the open source community and developers who participate in open source projects is critical
A high level of technical understanding
University level education desirable, or equivalent
Thorough knowledge of the software market, open source key players and projects

If you're interested, send your CV to roman dot strobl at sun dot com and I'll forward it into to the right hands. This position is location independent, although Prague is prefered.

Comments:

I'll be perfectly honest - I detest the phrase "community manager" - communities aren't "managed" (or, things that are "managed" tend not to be communities). But jobs need titles, and for the moment we're stuck with this one, since you have to put something on a job requisition or you don't get the pleasure of hiring someone :-) Basically think of it as "Friendly engineer who can talk and likes to listen too" and you've got the flavor of it. Someone to make sure questions get answered on mailing lists, can see both sides of a flame war, and is capable of insight and vision when it comes to how to make things even better for the NetBeans community, with the ability to actually achieve the things they come up with as ideas. That's the unofficial, non-robospeak version of it, anyway :-) (Roman, who came up with Open Source Community Plan, anyway? It makes me think of shock workers...)

Posted by Tim Boudreau on leden 05, 2006 at 01:31 dop. CET #

Tim, I agree, the community can't and mustn't be managed - it's just the title. I'm not the author of the text, this is the official Sun job position text. I suggested to post it to my blog because it's a good way how to reach somebody from the community. We already have some adepts, but I encourage others to send CVs.

Tim, if I wrote that community manager is "a friendly engineer who can talk and likes to listen too"... it would not sound serious, would it? So yes, this is just the Sun official job position description, so don't get scared of it. We're normal people here, just a bit geeky, but you might like that :)

Posted by Roumen on leden 05, 2006 at 09:31 dop. CET #

I'm looking for a job, so i will send my CV after review, right away :)

This is the kind of stuff that i love to do, i just got voted Top100 @javalobby, and also i started a negotiation to create better support between the NetBeans and J2ME Polish that resulted in a conversation between Robert Virkus's (Robert is the founder of Enough Software) and Petr Suchomel and Martin Ryzl, that can lead I hope into a "even" better J2ME support in NetBeans and better NetBeans Support in J2ME Polish.

I am also a great evangelist of NetBeans, just 2 days ago in my brothers weeding i was talking to my cousin that is using Eclipse in his company for JEE development with Hibernate (he is waiting for JBoss 5.0, EJB3.0 support is very important to him, i also talked to him about glassfish but he is a JBoss men), that he should look into NB and that NB5.0 is going to have great support for JEE 5 and EJB3.0, his main complain with NB wend he tried it was the plugins, i told him that now the plugin system is much easier to develop too, he told me he is going to evaluate NB with Glassfish for his next project, i think i sold NB on him ;)

I'm going to cross my fingers and hope I get it.

Posted by Daniel MD on leden 05, 2006 at 10:29 dop. CET #

Daniel, sounds good, looking forward to your CV. My manager will then get back to you with an answer and hopefully also an invitation for the interview :)

Posted by Roumen on leden 05, 2006 at 10:34 dop. CET #

Why not call it "NetBeans Community Evangelist" instead. [The other evangelists (Gregg, Brian, etc) are "NetBeans Technology Evangelists". Sure, they focus on the community a lot, but what this new function does/will do is more community-focused, or that's what it sounds like, than technology focused.]

Posted by Geertjan on leden 05, 2006 at 01:16 odp. CET #

Not a bad idea, although this position name is well adopted among other opensource projects, for instance Jim Grisanzio from the Opensolaris project uses it. I think it's better understandable by the outsiders, just because it's commonly used. Not that it has much to do with management.

Posted by Roumen on leden 05, 2006 at 01:31 odp. CET #

Sounds interesting. What's the salary like?

Posted by Andrew Stevens on leden 08, 2006 at 01:48 dop. CET #

Hmm, maybe I should apply. :)

Posted by Ed Burnette on leden 10, 2006 at 02:47 dop. CET #

Ed, that would be a nice surprise :) Send us your CV and we'll see what is possible! :)

Posted by Roumen on leden 10, 2006 at 08:45 dop. CET #

Andrew, the salary is insteresting. It is discussed during the interview.

Posted by Roumen on leden 10, 2006 at 09:09 dop. CET #