[jomkr]

Here's what I do. Find employees using LinkedIn, find their GitHub profile and any projects they're doing that I find interesting. Create a good pull-request.

After it's accepted, I send a follow-up saying I'm looking for work and asking if they'd pass on my CV.

I only do PR for projects that interest me anyway, so it's not time-wasting as I'd do Open Source work anyway.

This approach hasn't actually got me a remote-job yet, but I think that's more down to my lack of interviewing technique.

[albertgoeswoof]

> This approach hasn't actually got me a remote-job yet

[softawre]

Sure - but I think it's good advice regardless.

[justadeveloper2]

I'm just curious how much money you have made with that technique? Most places I have worked that pay anything decent don't host public code on github. It seems like great advice until I stopped and thought about it and realized that. Is there really any money in open source work if you're not tied to some major company like Google who is paying your salary?

[jomkr]

I haven't made any money like this and it hasn't got me a job. I did put that disclaimer in the original comment.

I suspect the time would be better spent elsewhere, probably face-to-face networking if I had to choose one thing.