I definitely think that a jobs group that accepts _all_ kinds of
OpenSolaris job postings (and even pure Solaris, since it is an
important distribution) would be useful and valuable. Its all part of
the ecosystem.
As pointed out below, a posting board searchable would do the trick.
What may not be obvious is that a moderated e-mail list actually can
fill that need.
I would expect that very few people would be subscribed to
jobs at opensolaris.org, apart from maybe recruiters and those *actively*
searching for work. But the archives would be searchable.
Perhaps a good way help folks filter through such messages effectively
might be to put a [tag] on the subject line as well, for example:
[opensolaris-jobs][kernel engineer] Kernel/device driver developer
position in Cambridge, MA
[opensolaris-jobs][sysadmin] Sysadmin opening for large Florida
OpenSolaris shop
[opensolaris-jobs][quality] QA position in Menlo, Park
[opensolaris-jobs][sw engineer] Need engineer to port Duke Nukem Forever
to OpenSolaris
And such. I suspect that starting out, this is probably good enough.
It will probably take a while before the job hunters flood the list to
the point that we have to figure out a different solution. When that
happens, it will be a good problem to have to solve.
-- Garrett
Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:39:41AM +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
>
>
>> Basically what you covered in 2, and mentioned in your questions - I
>> don't think it's necessarily of benefit for the community to start
>> sending around a whole heap of system administration type jobs. I'd
>> much prefer to keep it to purely development/contribution towards
>> the goals of opensolaris.org if possible. Is that too harsh?
>>
>
> It's difficult to say here, I think. My concern is that there are
> thousands of Solaris system administrator positions out there and
> probably fewer than a dozen OpenSolaris engineering ones. If we
> allowed the list to be flooded by the former - and it would be -
> people only interested in the latter would be unlikely to subscribe
> and the list would be a failure.
>
> That said, it's difficult to make the case that rejecting such posts
> would be consistent with our mission - we're supposed to care about
> the entire ecosystem around OpenSolaris, which certainly includes that
> kind of job. A reasonable compromise might be to accept
> advertisements only for those administrative posts which would deal
> exclusively with one or more OpenSolaris distributions; that is, those
> which are of unique interest and value to this community. People
> looking to be hired as administrators probably already have plenty of
> more general places to look; recruiters advertising such positions
> should make use of them.
>
> A searchable OpenSolaris-related job board would be a useful addition
> to our infrastructure; if we had such a thing, it would be reasonable
> to accept all postings related to OpenSolaris in any nontrivial way.
> It would also be a good way to finance operations (the Craigslist
> business model). Until then, I'd bias in favour of a smaller number
> of more obviously interesting postings.
>
>
