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frequent | 4 years ago | on: Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines

to be precise, public funding is based on the results of the upcoming legislative (national assembly) elections. France has 577 districts, each elect on representative in two rounds.

Parties receive about 40k€/year for every elected representative and another ~1.40€/vote/year for every vote in these elections provided (!) you make more than 1% in at least 50 districts.

These amounts get reduced considerably if you do not respect gender-parity across your candidates.

More info on https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financement_des_partis_politiq...

frequent | 4 years ago | on: Voting in France: Paper ballots, cast in person; no machines

noteworthy that outside from presidential elections, candidates need to purchase and provide these paper ballots (plus official flyers mailed to registered voters) on their own cost and only get reimboursed if they score more than 5%.

frequent | 4 years ago | on: Deploy a website on imgur.com

We maintain a similar Javascript library at work called jIO [1][2]. It provides the same API to different storages (currently Memory, IndexedDB, WebSql, WebDav, Dropbox, GoogleDrive, ERP5) plus handlers for functionality and complex storage trees (eg zip, union, query, replicate, crypt storage). It's relatively straightforward to extend and query data sources with an open API since you just have to reimplement the jIO API methods.

[1] https://jio.nexedi.com/ [2] https://github.com/nexedi/jio

frequent | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)

Nexedi | Lille | Software Engineer | FULLTIME and 4-12 months INTERNS | ONSITE or REMOTE - https://www.nexedi.com/jobs We're looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software stack (https://stack.nexedi.com/). We do custom implementations and participate in publicly funded R&D projects, currently for industrial automation, drones, and interoperablity in cloud technologies. We run a small Free Software Endowment fund (https://www.fdl-lef.org/), try to establish an alternative vRAN standard (https://www.simpleran.org/) and are trying to build a hyper open European cloud provider (https://www.rapid.space/). We offer neither fame nor fortune, but if you're idealistic and passionate about Free Software, we'd like to hear from you. Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're currently searching trainees and full time positions for the following topics:

    - Nexedi | Drone Swarms | Lille, Paris, Munich, Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Data-driven (AI) 5G Robot Automation | Lille, Plovdiv, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Artificial Optical Inspection | Lille, Plovdiv, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Python acceleration with Cython+ | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Distributed 5G core network automation | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Verified boot for Debian | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Network Resiliency | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Galéne WebRTC videoconference integration | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Offline HTML5 Progressive Web Applications | Lille, Paris | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | ERP5 Offline Collaborative Editing | Lille, Paris, | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | HTML5 as SlapOS orchestration target | Lille, Paris | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | A browser as virtual machine | Lille, Paris | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Open Source PLC | Lille, Plovdiv, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

frequent | 4 years ago | on: The most precious resource is agency

The developer in me says life and our society are like open source software. A gigantic piece of code constantly being rewritten and growing exponentially over time. Too much for anyone to truly grasp in its completeness as time progresses, but also not purely spaghetti code, so you can always break it down into smaller components one can eventually understand. Of course, like the author argues, you can use this software without ever caring or wondering about its inner workings. Or you can try to make contributions. However, there are no contribution guidelines for life. "Usefulness" depends on everyones' individual definition (improve the kernel or code readability) and "capacity to act" doesn't age well (I started hacking with jQuery). A contribution can be anything that may leave an impression on someone - a single person or any amount of people, a good or (for sake of completeness) a bad impression, something forgotten after an instant or something passed on for generations in some form or another - legacy contributions that eventually also get rewritten over time. Personally, I don't think the results matter as much as trying to make these contributions. After all, not all merge-requests make it into production code, but they are all worthy efforts of trying to improve small parts of the software of life and move our society forward.

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Sid Meier: More Than Just Civilization

Same here. My brothers and me could name all the Caribbean islands, we tried to sail to Europe from Bermuda and I remember my Dad sinking a half our galleons in the span of minutes we let him play on our Commodore64.

Thanks for the memories :)

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)

Nexedi | Lille | Software Engineer | FULLTIME and 4-12 months INTERNS | ONSITE https://www.nexedi.com/jobs We're looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software stack (https://stack.nexedi.com/). We do custom implementations and participate in publicly funded R&D projects. We run a small Free Software Endowment fund (https://www.fdl-lef.org/), try to establish an alternative vRAN standard (https://www.simpleran.org/) and are trying to build a hyper open European cloud provider (https://www.rapid.space/). We offer neither fame nor fortune, but if you're idealistic and passionate about Free Software, we'd like to hear from you. Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're currently searching trainees and full time positions for the following topics:

    - Nexedi | Drone Swarms | Lille, Paris, Munich, Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Data-driven (AI) 5G Robot Automation | Lille, Plovdiv, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Artificial Optical Inspection | Lille, Plovdiv, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Python acceleration with Cython+ | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Distributed 5G core network automation | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Verified boot for Debian | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Network Resiliency | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Galéne WebRTC videoconference integration | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Offline HTML5 Progressive Web Applications | Lille, Paris | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | ERP5 Offline Collaborative Editing | Lille, Paris, | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | HTML5 as SlapOS orchestration target | Lille, Paris | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | A browser as virtual machine | Lille, Paris | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Open Source PLC | Lille, Plovdiv, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)

Nexedi | Lille | Software Engineer | FULLTIME and 4-12 months INTERNS | ONSITE https://www.nexedi.com/jobs We're looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software stack (https://stack.nexedi.com/). We do custom implementations and participate in publicly funded R&D projects. We run a small Free Software Endowment fund (https://www.fdl-lef.org/), try to establish an alternative vRAN standard (https://www.simpleran.org/) and are trying to build a hyper open European cloud provider (https://www.rapid.space/). We offer neither fame nor fortune, but if you're idealistic and passionate about Free Software, we'd like to hear from you. Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're currently searching trainees and full time positions for the following topics:

    - Nexedi | Drone Swarms | Lille, Paris, Munich, Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Data-driven (AI) 5G Robot Automation | Lille, Plovdiv, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Artificial Optical Inspection | Lille, Plovdiv, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Python acceleration with Cython+ | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Distributed 5G core network automation | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Verified boot for Debian | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Network Resiliency | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Galéne WebRTC videoconference integration | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Offline HTML5 Progressive Web Applications | Lille, Paris | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | ERP5 Offline Collaborative Editing | Lille, Paris, | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | HTML5 as SlapOS orchestration target | Lille, Paris | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | A browser as virtual machine | Lille, Paris | INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | Open Source PLC | Lille, Plovdiv, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)

Nexedi | Lille | Software Engineer | FULLTIME and 4-12 months INTERNS | ONSITE https://www.nexedi.com/jobs

We're looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software stack (https://stack.nexedi.com/). We do custom implementations for large industrial clients and participate in several French and European R&D projects. We offer neither fame nor fortune, but if you're idealistic and passionate about Free Software and want to help us prove its abilities across multiple domains, we're looking forward to hearing form you. Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're currently searching trainees and full time positions for:

    - Nexedi | Developer Drone Swarms | Lille, Paris, Munich, Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | Developer 5G Robot Automation | Lille, Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | Artificial Optical Inspection | Lille, Plovdiv, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | Cython Developer | Lille, Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Europe’s telcos want ‘open’ 5G networks

Amarisoft and Nexedi also launched a joint company called Rapid.Space last year. It combines cloud and 4G/5G infrastructure operation and is "HyperOpen" = using open-source software, open hardware and open service.

Press release: https://handbook.rapid.space/RS-Hyper.Open.Converged.Cloud.D...

More info on 5G technology: https://handbook.rapid.space/evangelist/RS-Presentation.For....

(disclaimer: I work for Nexedi and help out on Rapid.Space)

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring for open-source projects?

re Alibaba: We're aware of the Alibaba CPU and are following it. It is indeed very interesting. But we also visited one of the factories where their servers are produced. Everything is secret and there seems to be no open-source culture, so we don't have much hope. We tried working with OpenPower servers, but when testing with real workloads, they were ~4x slower than x86 or ARM.

re Secure Boot: We use secure boot / TPM only in Capri servers and it causes of lot of work with suppliers. We are working on a drakut uefi boot with secure boot and are slowly sloving BIOS issues. Linuxboot bios is used on some servers, but it's not maintained and no secure boot, plus the information from Intel to maintain linuxboot is secret with NDA. In general, securing the boot process requires hopping piggyback on larger companies with the same issues and the bargaining power to speak with AMD or Intel, because NDAs are a dead end and without bargaining power, your mileage is short.

If you're interested to discuss in more detail, send me an email and I'll connect you with my boss who knows a lot more.

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring for open-source projects?

We distinguish between must vs should.

Open Service means we must be transparent about what suppliers, components and procedures are used to provide a cloud (or any other) service, so that anyone can use/study/copy/operate the service. Used components should be open-source on the other hand. We cannot guarantee them to be in order to provide the service.

Open Hardware is the same. It must be transparent regarding components being used, so bill of materials, PCB design files etc must be available so that anyone can rebuild a product. All components then should be open-source, but it cannot be guaranteed that they are.

When you instead insist on "must be open-source" you may end up without a solution or something very expensive or very slow for which there may be no market. Or you can make a competitive product, which must be transparent, can be replicated and should be open. Then invest over time to open-source the remaining non-open components. The openRRH project fits into this principle.

More info on https://www.fdl-lef.org/FDL-Hyper.Open.Initiative

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring for open-source projects?

I'll also chip in. I'm working for Nexedi in France and we're probably one of Europe's largest open source publishers.

We're doing strictly FLOSS software and earn our living by (1) customizing solutions for industrial clients and (2) participating in R&D projects. Our main product is ERP5 (think open source SAP) - https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/erp5. Other solutions are built on top, such as SlapOS (ERP for cloud orchestration) - https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/slapos or Wendelin (ERP for big data)- https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/wendelin

We're recruiting mostly for our R&D projects, since it's a good way to familiarize yourself with our stack - https://stack.nexedi.com/

One project is https://www.osie-project.eu/ - building an open source/open hardware framework for industrial automation and robotics Another one is https://www.cython.plus/ - trying to port multi-core concurrent programming from Golang to Python. Third project about deploying SlapOS on swarms of drones has no site online yet as we just started.

We have also launched a hyper-open cloud provider, called https://www.rapid.space/ - hyper-open meaning open source, open hardware & open service. One other notable for Rapid.Space is the upcoming release of our openRRH project through the free software endowment fund we're working to establish - https://www.fdl-lef.org/

Albeit all of this, we're still only a small team of about 40 scattered across the globe. Our main offices are in Lille, Munich and Tokio. Our learning curve is quite steep, so pre-Covid it always helped to have new Nexedians start out in one of our offices or at least spent a few months with us. Depending on your topic and Covid, remote work is not a problem. Aside from this, we have a flat hierarchy and expect everyone to be able to work autonomously. If this is not your thing, you'll have a hard time here. We're also obviously opinionated about open-source, our stack is mostly Python and Javascript and we only use Chromebooks (with our own OS). We're free of VC-funding to keep our solutions free, the downside being that we don't have the marketing budget for flashy sites and large communities. C'est la vie as we say in France :)

If you're interested, our current offers are on https://nexedi.com/jobs , my mail is on my profile. Thanks!

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)

Nexedi | Lille/Plovdiv | ONSITE | FULLTIME and 4-12 months INTERNS. We're looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software stack (https://stack.nexedi.com/). We do custom implementations for large industrial clients and participate in several French and European R&D projects. We offer neither fame nor fortune, but if you're idealistic and passionate about Free Software and want to help us prove its abilities across multiple domains, we're looking forward to hearing form you (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs). Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're currently searching trainees and full time positions for:

    - Nexedi | Industrial Automation Developer | Lille/Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | Cython Developer | Lille/Paris/Munich | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | TSN Developer | Lille/Munich/Plovdiv/Stuttgart | ONSITE/REMOTE

    - Nexedi | System Developer | Lille/Paris/Munich | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | Cybersecurity Developer | Lille/Paris | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | ERP5 Developer | Lille/Munich/Tokio | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi/Rapid Space | Telco Developer | Lille | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | Numpy Developer | Lille/Munich | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | Developer for Artificial Optical Inspection - AOI | Lille/Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | Developer for Open Source PLC for Industrial Automation | Lille/Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)

Nexedi | Lille/Plovdiv | ONSITE | FULLTIME and 4-12 months INTERNS. We're looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software stack (https://stack.nexedi.com/). We do custom implementations for large industrial clients and participate in several French and European R&D projects. We offer neither fame nor fortune, but if you're idealistic and passionate about Free Software and want to help us prove its abilities across multiple domains, we're looking forward to hearing form you (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs). Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're currently searching trainees and full time positions for one of our industrial automation projects:

    - Nexedi | Artificial Optical Inspection - from sorting to soldering | Lille/Plovdiv | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | Open Source PLC for Industrial Automation | Plovdiv/Lille | FULLTIME/INTERN | ONSITE

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)

Nexedi | Lille/Plovdiv | ONSITE | 4-12 months INTERNS. We're looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software stack (https://stack.nexedi.com/). We do custom implementations for large industrial clients and participate in several French and European R&D projects. We offer neither fame nor fortune - if you're idealistic and passionate about Free Software and want to help us prove its abilities across multiple domains, we're looking forward to hearing form you (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs). Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're currently searching trainees for one of our industrial automation projects:

    - Nexedi | Artificial Optical Inspection - from sorting to soldering | Lille/Plovdiv | INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | Open Source PLC for Industrial Automation | Plovdiv/Lille | INTERN | ONSITE

frequent | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)

Nexedi | Lille/Plovdiv | ONSITE | 4-12 months INTERNS. We're looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software stack (https://stack.nexedi.com/). We do custom implementations for large industrial clients and participate in several French and European R&D projects. We offer neither fame nor fortune - if you're idealistic and passionate about Free Software and want to help us prove its abilities across multiple domains, we're looking forward to hearing form you (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs). Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're currently searching trainees for one of our industrial automation projects:

    - Nexedi | Artificial Optical Inspection - from sorting to soldering | Lille/Plovdiv | INTERN | ONSITE

    - Nexedi | Open Source PLC for Industrial Automation | Plovdiv/Lille | INTERN | ONSITE

frequent | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)

Nexedi | Lille/Munich/Paris/Tokyo/Plovdiv | ONSITE | FULL TIME and 4-12 months INTERNS. We're looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software solutions. Our stack is FOSS only (https://stack.nexedi.com/) and we use it to provide custom industrial implementations. We offer neither fame nor fortune - you do need to be idealistic and passionate about Free Software to apply (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs). Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're hiring for:

    - Nexedi | High-performance Python without GIL through type inference and thread-safe memory management in Cython | Lille | FULLTIME or INTERN

    - Nexedi | Jupyter Lab Mass Deployment Developer | Lille/Munich | FULLTIME or INTERN

    - Nexedi | Artificial Optical Inspection - AOI | Lille/Plovdiv | FULLTIME or INTERN

    - Nexedi | Open Source Robot / Industrial Automation | Lille/Plovdiv/Munich | FULLTIME or INTERN    

    - Nexedi | Time Sensitive Routing for Industrial Automation and Robotics | Lille/Munich | FULLTIME or INTERN

    - Nexedi | Python Out-of-Core Numpy Developer | Lille | FULLTIME or INTERN

    - Nexedi | 4G/5G Telco Edge Computing Developer | Lille/Dakar | FULLTIME or INTERN

    - Nexedi | Python PyData and Javascript Project Developer | Lille/Munich | FULLTIME or INTERN

    - Nexedi | Javascript Serviceworker Web IDE Developer | Lille | FULLTIME or INTERN

    - Nexedi | ERP5 Developer Automotive | Lille/Munich | FULLTIME or INTERN

About Nexedi: We are a team of 35 programmers (headquarters in Lille, France) creating Free Software since 2001 and providing custom implementations that range from collecting and analysing sensor data in windparks to managing product flows in car assembly lines. Unique features of solutions in our stack enable us to offer levels of scalability and durability required in industrial settings. We participate in European research projects currently mostly in open source industrial automation and we're contributing to various open source solutions. We have time to play and experiment. We all use degooglized Chromebooks, have a flat hierarchy, paperless offices and no meetings. We hack in Python and (vanilla) JavaScript, plus golang and C if needed.

frequent | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

Nexedi | Lille/Munich/Paris/Tokyo | ONSITE | FULL TIME and 4-12 months INTERNS. Happy New Year!! We are looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software solutions. Our stack is FOSS only (https://stack.nexedi.com/) and we use it to provide custom industrial implementations. We offer neither fame nor fortune - you do need to be idealistic and passionate about Free Software to apply (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs). Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're hiring for:

    - Nexedi | Python PyData and Javascript Project Developer | Munich | INTERN

    - Nexedi | Python PyData and Javascript Project Developer | Munich

    - Nexedi | JavaScript Severless Web Messaging | Lille | INTERN

    - Nexedi | Python AI and Big Data | Lille | INTERN

    - Nexedi | Out-Of-Core Numpy | Lille | INTERN    

    - Nexedi | Jupyter Lab Mass Deployment | Lille | INTERN

    - Nexedi | Resilient Embedded GNU/Linux Edge Computing | Lille | INTERN

About Nexedi: We are a team of 35 programmers (headquarters in Lille, France) creating Free Software since 2001 and providing custom implementations that range from collecting and analysing sensor data in windparks to managing product flows in car assembly lines. Unique features of solutions in our stack enable us to offer levels of scalability and durability required in industrial settings. We participate in European research projects, contribute to open source solutions and have time to play and experiment. We all use degooglized Chromebooks, have a flat hierarchy, paperless offices and no meetings. We hack in Python and (vanilla) JavaScript, plus golang and C if needed.

frequent | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)

Nexedi | Lille/Munich/Paris/Tokyo | ONSITE | FULL TIME and 4-12 months INTERNS. As usual we are looking for new colleagues and trainees to help improve our Free Software solutions. Our stack is FOSS only (https://stack.nexedi.com/) and we use it to provide custom industrial implementations. We offer neither fame nor fortune - you do need to be idealistic and passionate about Free Software to apply (http://www.nexedi.com/jobs). Candidates will do a programming challenge and 1 interview (2 for full time). We're hiring for:

    - Nexedi | Python PyData and Javascript Project Developer | Munich | INTERN

    - Nexedi | JavaScript Severless Web Messaging | Lille | INTERN

    - Nexedi | Python AI and Big Data | Lille | INTERN

    - Nexedi | Out-Of-Core Numpy | Lille | INTERN    

    - Nexedi | Jupyter Lab Mass Deployment | Lille | INTERN

    - Nexedi | Resilient Embedded GNU/Linux Edge Computing | Lille | INTERN

About Nexedi: We are a team of 35 programmers (headquarters in Lille, France) creating Free Software since 2001 and providing custom implementations that range from collecting and analysing sensor data in windparks to managing product flows in car assembly lines. Unique features of solutions in our stack enable us to offer levels of scalability and durability required in industrial settings. We participate in European research projects, contribute to open source solutions and have time to play and experiment. We all use degooglized Chromebooks, have a flat hierarchy, paperless offices and no meetings. We hack in Python and (vanilla) JavaScript, plus golang and C if needed.