kandan

ork and yet, not only are they not actively participating to make the body of free (as in freedom) software larger, they're actively discouraging people from contributing. Working in open source is tough -- it's many times a thankless job. I was one of the team members of Kandan (https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan), which was a Slack clone with ~2.5k stars, and as much as we helped people, sometimes it also felt like it never was enough. One of the few helpful things that came from being true FOSS was that most people had an understanding that we did this as volunteer work, so they weren't upset when features or changes took long, or weren't merged into the app. But if the goal is to eventually move customers into other products, or onto a premium tier, it becomes a different game with different rules.

ttp://www.edmunds.com/car-news/edmundscom-acquires-carcode-... --- We've recently grown to a small team of 6, and are now looking to bring on two more developers. We do most of our work using Ruby, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and other open web technologies (CoffeeScript, SASS, and more). We're looking for intermediate to senior level developers for at least one (or preferably both) of next two positions (and maybe some interns or beginner-level developers immediately after that). --- We also work on a lot on open-source. For example, I maintain the Rails jquery-ujs [2] and jquery-rails [3] libraries; Scott is a maintainer of the Kandan open-source chat app [4]; and we just launched Dynatable.js [5] back in December, which has now overtaken Datatables in popularity on Github; and we have several other projects in the works as well [6]. Our open-source projects have over 8,000 combined stars on Github so far. We also each have our own side-projects we work on as well, including our company status dashboard (built on Node) which pulls from all of our internal applications in real-time to show how we're doing that week, an application which helps you record and save your important voicemails forever, and several others. If working on startups and open-source sounds like a lot of fun to you, then you might be a good fit :-) If you're ready to become an integral part of a startup building startups, let us know. Check us out (http://www.alfajango.com), and reach out to us at support@alfajango.com. [1] https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs [2] http://rubygems.org/gems/jquery-rails [3] https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan [4] http://www.dynatable.com/ [5] http://os.alfajango.com/

f 5, looking to bring on two more developers. We do most of our work using Ruby, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, and other open web technologies (CoffeeScript, SASS, and more). We're looking for intermediate to senior level developers for the next two positions (and maybe some interns or beginner-level developers immediately after that). --- We also work on a lot on open-source. For example, I maintain the Rails jquery-ujs [1] and jquery-rails [2] libraries; Scott is a maintainer of the Kandan open-source chat app [3]; and we just launched Dynatable.js [4] back in December; and we have several other projects in the works as well [5]. Our open-source projects have over 8,000 combined stars on Github so far. We also each have our own side-projects we work on as well. If working on startups and open-source sounds like a lot of fun to you, then you might be a good fit :-) If you're ready to become an integral part of a startup building startups, let us know. Reach out to us at support@alfajango.com. [1] https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs [2] http://rubygems.org/gems/jquery-rails [3] https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan [4] http://www.dynatable.com/ [5] http://os.alfajango.com/