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Great questions, atm the index contains either companies that have their main products as open-source, or companies that make significant contributions (eg: Netflix, Cloudflare, OpenAI have thousands of Github stars).

All jobs should be remote-friendly. There's nothing to do - if you see the jobs, they should be relevant to you.

Some companies do have physical offices (meaning you're welcome to work from there), and those cities are listed if you click on the company's name. Right now it's region-biased per country -- if you scroll to the bottom and click "more" you can change the country. There's def still work to do (visas, non-remote, fine-tuning, etc).

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> either companies that have their main products as open-source, or companies that make significant contributions

These two categories seem pretty distinct, and the second is pretty nebulous. What does "significant" mean here, and how well does that translate to the odds of me working on an open source project? It's unclear why Netflix and Cloudflare are included but, say, Facebook and Microsoft aren't.

If you're going to include both, it would be nice if there were a way to distinguish and filter between these two categories. I really like the idea of being able to see all the open source jobs out there, but having Netflix at the top of the list makes me unsure how many of these companies are truly open-source-first.

Good point. The code used to have a "work directly on open-source" checkbox per job, but it's hidden for now because I wasn't sure about the edge cases: people can be asked to switch projects later, some companies have their main product as open-source but the position is not directly related (eg: devops), etc. Perhaps I should bring it back and see how it does. Thank you for the feedback.

I'm not sure about the other companies, but I see listings for both Netflix and OpenAI that claim to offer remote work. Aren't both companies notoriously remote-hostile? OpenAI in particular seems to have been pretty vocally anti-remote lately. It might be a good idea to allow some way for people to flag bait-and-switch remote listings.

Reporting/flagging features are def on the todo list & not yet there. I agree, they'd be great to have for better moderation. All good points.

> All jobs should be remote-friendly

Would be helpful to mention where by the way; some positions are world-wide remote, others Europe or US only.

Indeed. Some companies limit to countries, some to timezones (+/- a few hours), some to regions like you mentioned, and others might have a language requirement. I've been trying to figure out how to surface that properly without making it too complicating for either the poster or the viewer, and I'm honestly not sure yet.

Though timezone is generally a proxy for the former. I don't think many US companies asking for UTC-(7-5) for example will entertain European applicants willing or happy (I know it would suit me better!) to work those hours.

Maybe don't show anything unless a specific country (usually US) is mentioned? Can add a flag emoji for those.

Timezones are often more flexible, and I wouldn't bother too much with that. But location often doesn't have that due to legal hassle etc (other than visa sponsorships).

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