All I can do is second that. Thank you _so_ very much for your (read everyone 
who contributed) hard work on this!

-Arty

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Bess 
Sadler
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 9:44 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs.code4lib.org relaunched

Hooray!! This board is such a great service to the community. Thank you, Chris. 

Bess

> On May 11, 2017, at 11:02 AM, Chris Beer <ch...@cbeer.info> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Yesterday (with help from Ryan Wick) I relaunched a brand new, completely 
> rewritten https://jobs.code4lib.org <https://jobs.code4lib.org/> with the 
> full job posting history from shortimer and job postings to this list. As 
> before, messages to CODE4LIB-L are aggregated and presented in the 
> application (after a quick moderator review).
> 
> In this first iteration, I tried to capture the essential features of the 
> application, which means there’s plenty of opportunity for improvements. The 
> code is available at https://github.com/code4lib/job_board 
> <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board>, and I’d like to call out a couple 
> tickets that may be good starting places for new contributors:
> 
> - Include the job title and employer in 
> (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/28 
> <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/28>)
> - Send new job notifications to the code4lib slack #jobs channel 
> (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/30 
> <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/30>)
> 
> And some operations tasks:
> - Add application monitoring (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/25 
> <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/25>)
> - Implement continuous deployment 
> (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/32 
> <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/32>)
> 
> There are also some more data-driven research tasks:
> 
> - Automated tag extraction (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/8 
> <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/8>)
> - Job location geocoding and display 
> (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/4 
> <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/4>)
> - Better job searching tools (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/7 
> <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/7>)
> 
> If you have questions, comments, or want to get involved, I’d strongly 
> encourage discussion using github issues on the project, and I’m cbeer in the 
> code4lib IRC + slack channels.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 
>> On Oct 18, 2016, at 1:51 PM, Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> If you have used jobs.code4lib.org in the past you may have noticed that job 
>> posting has not really been functional for the past few weeks. The root 
>> cause of this was the eventual shutdown of Google's Freebase API, which the 
>> application relied on heavily for tagging employers, locations and subjects. 
>> You can read more about it in this issue ticket if you are interested:
>> 
>> https://github.com/code4lib/shortimer/issues/38
>> 
>> Unfortunately I don't have the bandwidth to refactor the code at this point. 
>> Before the shutdown of the Freebase API I was actually finding it difficult 
>> to moderate the many new jobs that would show up via RSS. In theory this 
>> could've been done by any logged in user, but I was often the only person 
>> doing it. I'm not complaining--I was the one who set it up to to work this 
>> way. I also have been paying $20/month to host it, which isn't a lot -- but 
>> hey, it adds up.
>> 
>> So .... this is all to say, on November 1st I am planning on creating a 
>> static version of the site, and dumping the data as JSON, which I will put 
>> up on Internet Archive for anyone else wanting to create a similar service. 
>> The code will continue to live up at GitHub [1]. 
>> 
>> I apologize if this rubs anyone the wrong way, but it is super to see people 
>> still posting jobs to the email list as they always have. Applications age 
>> like fish, data ages wine -- or so they say...
>> 
>> //Ed
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/code4lib/shortimer

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