Remote work from New Zealand

I’ve worked remotely since 2009. Here’s some random notes.

Organisations

The New Zealand Open Source Society:

• http://nzoss.org.nz/

Canterbury Software Cluster:

• http://www.canterburysoftware.org.nz/

Institute of IT Professionals (old NZCS):

• http://www.iitp.org.nz/

Christchurch Robotics Club:

• http://kiwibots.org/

Robonz:

• http://www.pitstock.com/robonz/maillist.html

The Valley in Christchurch (TVIC):

• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/tvic

Companies

Linaro

• http://www.linaro.org/
• http://www.linaro.org/careers/linaro/
• Open source on ARM. Distributed.

Canonical

• http://www.canonical.com/
• http://www.canonical.com/about-canonical/careers
• ~600 people, Ubuntu, web, cloud, phone, tablet, distributed. Phew!

Mozilla

• http://www.mozilla.org/
• http://careers.mozilla.org/
• Firefox for desktop, Android, distributed

Automattic

• http://automattic.com/work-with-us/
• http://toni.org/2010/03/08/5-reasons-why-your-company-should-be-distributed/
• Wordpress

37signals

• http://jobs.37signals.com - search for ‘anywhere’