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Chances are you’ve never heard of Igalia, the open source consultancy. Yet you’re almost certainly using something that Igalia helped build.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Most importantly:

It’s not a typical consultancy and much of its success comes from how different it is: “We are a worker-owned cooperative,” explains Brian Kardell, [...] “We have a flat structure. There are no bosses, there are no shareholders. It’s our lives, our company and we want to work on something that is valuable.”

They also currently have open applications for a very nice paid mentorship program: https://www.igalia.com/coding-experience/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Sounds almost too good to be true in this world…