[OSGeo-Discuss] Job Postings / Job Wanted

[Steve Lime]

It's a valid point. The GJC is certainly not limited to just the US and
Canada but that's definitely
where the bulk of the posts come from. I would encourage OSGeo to
consider partnerships with
sites from all over the world...

Steve

>>> On 1/25/2008 at 11:50 AM, in message
<200801251850.59636.yjacolin at free.fr>,
Yves Jacolin <yjacolin at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to give my 2 cent's. OSGeo is an internationnal
fundation, 
> which 
> means a lot of people from differents countries AND langages.
However, all 
> this website seems only speaking english, they are, may be, only here
for 
> example. It seems important to me to take care for I18n and
localization.
> 
> Which means : link to local website which can propose job
offers/resume, or 
> an 
> interface with several langages as OSGeo did for its own website.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Y.
> Le vendredi 25 janvier 2008 18:35, Steve Lime a écrit :
>> Something like this, at least at the moment, is going to be
relatively low
>> traffic. I search the GJC periodically for Open Source related
positions
>> and they do show up but not that often. That says to me that
partnering
>> with existing sites would be more efficient and would result in
broader
>> access.
>>
>> For the GJC one idea might be to update the job schema to allow
posters to
>> flag postings that have requirements for Open Source skills. Then I
could
>> create RSS or GeoRSS feeds for just those types of positions. There
has
>> also been talk of setting up a "contracts" section were shorter
term
>> contact positions.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> >>> On 1/25/2008 at 10:40 AM, in message
>>
>> <E757CA1D-0FAD-46C5-9AFE-95B4D0DF0C18 at osgeo.org>, "Tyler Mitchell
(OSGeo)"
>>
>> <tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
>> > On 25-Jan-08, at 6:31 AM, Fawcett, David wrote:
>> >> http://www.gjc.org/ ?
>> >
>> > Nice.. maps and RSS - great improvements since I last used it. 
I'd
>> > much rather go with something like this, since neither mailing
lists
>> > or customising our web site tools could match its function or its
>> > history.
>> >
>> > If there was a way to search for postings that were optionally
marked
>> > as "open source" or even "OSGeo Projects" friendly - that would
meet
>> > my needs.  Also, if we were able to ingest the RSS feed
(specifically
>> > for open source ones) - that we could possibly display the last
>> > couple jobs in a component on the OSGeo web site.
>> >
>> > I'd like to hear Steve Lime's opinion on the job board topic since
he
>> > runs GJC!
>> >
>> > Tyler
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