Val Henson speaks to CS 461 class
Valerie Henson, Linux Kernel hacker working for Intel, came to Corvallis to talk with the CS 461 class about “how to write open source code and get paid for it, too.” As Val noted, in the dreary post-dot com crash era, the conventional wisdom is that there are more qualified computer professionals than job openings. In reality, the reverse is true in many areas of software development. Open source development is a fast-growing field; many Linux-related programming jobs go unfilled for 6 months or more for lack of qualified applicants.