[OSGeo-Discuss] Job Postings / Job Wanted

[Landon Blake]

MPG wrote: "Every N weeks, the moderator would post a single mail with a
summary of jobs offered / jobs wanted.  In this way, the mails were low
volume and also easily filtered out."

I like this idea. But it means that someone has to volunteer to
moderate. :] Another similar suggestion would be to collect job postings
until there were X postings.

I think we could combine this with a wiki page. I would be willing to
maintain a wiki page for job postings.

Landon

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Michael P. Gerlek
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:17 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job Postings / Job Wanted

(We've actually discussed this once before, I think, very early on.  How
time flies.)

>From my perspective, as a hypothetical seeker of employees, I want to
reach as many people as possible: to wit, *everyone* is subscribed to
the Discuss list, but only a small subset would be subscribed to the
Jobs list.  That is, you have to know the job list exists first, and
then you have to actually subscribe... and many of the people I would
want to reach aren't subscribed because they don't think they need a new
job yet...

Back in the day, when I was on a different career path, comp.compilers
had an enlightened policy for this.  (It was a moderated list, but the
idea still holds.)  Every N weeks, the moderator would post a single
mail with a summary of jobs offered / jobs wanted.  In this way, the
mails were low volume and also easily filtered out.

No reason we couldn't play the same game for things like press releases.

-mpg



> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Landon Blake
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:46 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job Postings / Job Wanted
> 
> I wonder if the wiki would be a more appropriate place for 
> job postings?
> That would cut down on the spam. We could post the job openings there
> and delete them after a few weeks. That way a job posting wouldn't get
> buried in other e-mails.
> 
> Landon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:12 PM
> To: OSGeo
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job Postings / Job Wanted
> 
> Folks,
> 
> The OSGeo Service Provider Directory was implemented in response to
> frequent questions I have received from folks trying to find a
> consultant
> or integrator they could contact for implementing foss4g solutions.
> 
> Today (and certainly not for the first time) I received an email from
> someone trying to find potential employees with skills in a variety of
> OSGeo projects.  My question is whether there is something we 
> can do to
> address this need - and the corresponding need for folks who 
> would like
> to find potential jobs that would take advantage of their foss4g
> knowledge and interest.
> 
> Would it be acceptable to have job postings on this list?   Should we
> try and setup a job postings / job wanted mailing list?  Would it be
> likely to get enough subscribers and postings to make this 
> worth while?
> 
> I think of this as closely related to the recent issue about 
> announcing
> foss4g related products and services.  There are folks who 
> want to know
> and folks who need to get their message out.  But how do we put them
> together in a way that is likely to get a critical mass?
> 
> Basically - it helps our goal of foss4g uptake to ensure that 
> folks can
> make these commercial / employment contacts.
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
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