[OSGeo-Discuss] Job Postings / Job Wanted

[Tim Bowden]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 18:50 +0100, Yves Jacolin 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.
> 

Local chapters can both provide and consume a geoRSS feed?  Not sure how
you'd go about charging advertisers in that sort of scenario, but just a
thought.

> Thanks,
> 
> Y

Regards,
Tim Bowden

> .
> 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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