[giomasce]

Me too, though not entirely by luck: when I was looking for a job I specifically went for smallish, open source friendly, remote friendly companies. Then I started contributing to the projects they worked on in my free time, met the people at FOSDEM and chatted with them. This made the hiring process much smoother.

So, maybe I was lucky the plan worked, but it was not just a coincidence.

BTW, that company is still in full hiring attitude, in case you like working on free software.