Help Pillow creator find job

[aclark4life]

Anyone mind if I advertise here for a new full time remote job?

As you may have noticed and has since been confirmed, my "science IT" job of 10 years at NIMH is tentatively set to wrap ~Sep 15. As such, I need to find a new FT remote job no later than then, else pay a terrible price!

If no one minds, I will use this space to promote my availability around the globe, as well as maybe update the website with a link to this thread. If all goes well, we can close this issue no later than Sep 15! 😄 If anyone has any concerns, please let me know. Otherwise, here's one role I'm looking for.

Full stack web developer

• Django/React
• Jenkins CI
• AWS

Here's my résumé

• alex-clark-resume.pdf

Thank you for considering letting me do this here, and for any help you can provide in spreading the word. This applies to anyone reading this thread, in addition to the core team!

Thank you,

Alex

[hugovk]

Fine by me and good luck!

[aclark4life]

@hugovk Thanks! Website updated. 🎉

[aclark4life]

More attention to Pillow from me between now and mid-September, will keep an activity log here, starting with:

• Retro labeled all issues with either "Conda" or "Anaconda" in search results with "Anaconda" label.

Please remove label from false positives and… my general understanding is that we don't do much with these other than point to Anaconda… please correct me if I'm wrong.

[radarhere]

Sometimes they're Anaconda users who are reporting actual Pillow problems, like #6015 (comment) or #6187

For #5860 (comment), I actually ended up helping to fix the problem in conda-forge/pillow-feedstock#105 (comment)

But yes, sometimes, we do have to just redirect users as it isn't in our power to fix the problem - #6495 (comment)

[goyalyashpal]

And here's my résumé.

• alex-clark-resume.pdf

hey, will you mind if i share a criticism of the resume?

The table for "Skills" is split across pages of the pdf

This is likely as the pdf seems to be generated from webpage of some sort.

Possible fixes can be transposing the table, and grouping some skills - so that instead of one giant linear block, skills span multiple cells - which then can be arranged more freely. this will give you more freedom to utilise the space.

[radarhere]

Perhaps relevant, perhaps not.

[aclark4life]

@radarhere Thank you!

[aclark4life]

And here's my résumé.

• alex-clark-resume.pdf

hey, will you mind if i share a criticism of the resume?

The table for "Skills" is split across pages of the pdf

This is likely as the pdf seems to be generated from webpage of some sort.

Possible fixes can be transposing the table, and grouping some skills - so that instead of one giant linear block, skills span multiple cells - which then can be arranged more freely. this will give you more freedom to utilise the space.

Thank you! Fixing …

[aclark4life]

Thank you! Fixing …

Fixed! Thanks again @goyalyashpal. I appreciate the feedback.

[aclark4life]

And… coincidentally the website has just been updated, thank you @tfuxu! Works on mobile, much better "news" presentation, beautiful.

[aclark4life]

@hugovk @radarhere @wiredfool Do we have any experience with issues like this one in Pillow? I don't recall ever paying attention to dependency licensing … AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenImageIO#3249 (comment). Participating in https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/wiki/Dev-Days-2023 and would love to pass on any "best practice" info we've acquired over the years, if anyone is able to summarize anything useful, without too much effort, I would appreciate it! Thanks

[wiredfool]

We've definitely done gymnastics to not ship GPL code, in the raqm/fribidi stack. It's ok to write the code to connect to it, we just can't actually ship the entire package without making our software GPL, which is more restrictive than our current license.

Given that they're in Apache license land, I'd say that they've got similar constraints. Apache, MIT, BSD would be fine, LGPL is maybe and GPL is not.

I don't know if there would be an issue shipping for us, but I know that I wouldn't be comfortable shipping a closed source application built with pillow and using the raqm/fribidi stack.

(note, I don't remember which one is the GPL there, but I do remember the monkeying about with stub code so that if someone were to install the wheel and the library separately, it would work)

[aclark4life]

Thanks @wiredfool !

For anyone following along with my job search, here's an update. I decided that the overlapping of image processing and content creation is as cool if not more cool than the overlap of image processing and medical imaging.

As such, I registered to participate in a sprint in which folks will be contributing to various projects used in the motion picture industry for visual and special effects.

Since I have an accidental history with image processing in Python, I gravitated towards OpenImageIO and have already started working on a PR to provide wheels for this C++ image processing utility! E.g.

• https://github.com/aclark4life/oiio/pull/2

No idea if any of this will lead to any gainful employment, but it sure is fun! Cool to see pyproject.toml creating a wheel with no setuptools in sight.

My term date is officially Oct 24 and rest assured, I'll be closing this issue as soon as I find something even remotely close to "day job with benefits".

Thanks all 🙏

[aclark4life]

Science IT job officially wrapped Oct 24, search continues!

[aclark4life]

Hah, new milestone: changed title of this issue 8 times within 80 seconds!

[aclark4life]

Thanks folks! Haven't found a job yet, but consulting work picked up so I'm going to focus on that for now. Thank you again to everyone who contributed to this thread and contacted me via email. 🙏