[H-GEN] Re: Redhat in Brisbane?

[Paul Gearon]

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Andrae Muys wrote:
> > They are in fact opening an office - I even know of a couple of
> > people who will be working for them. I don't know anything about
> > other vacancies there though.

The office is apparently going to be in the Valley.

> Mark White, president of QAUUG and friend of humbug, was appointed the
> General Manager of RedHat Australia last year.  For the past few months he
> has been setting up operations, including staffing.  A number of RH job
> adds were posted to this list about a month ago iirc.  If you are
> interested get in touch with Mark, although you're a little late and there
> was no lack of candidates :).

At one point they were getting over 100 emails a day, plus the
snail-mail!  This was several weeks AFTER the closing date for
applications  :o)

Anyway, they're trying to set the business up on a commercial footing,
and have only just now started to look at hiring technical staff.  I
know that they've had to cull the ENOURMOUS list of resumes rather
ruthlessly, and they still have a huge number to get through.  Also,
after some of the recent "acquisitions" made by the parent company, they
picked up several "technical" Australian employees by default (several
people were telecommuting from Melbourne).

There aren't a lot of RedHatters in Australia yet, and all of the above
has kept them VERY busy.  I wouldn't expect to hear a lot from them for
a little while yet, but I can assure you that they are there and they
aren't standing still.

Regards,
Paul

Paul Gearon
gearon at computer.org

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immane mittam.
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