On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:56:46AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > I'd be more concerned with finding a couple of committed moderators *at all*; > note that nobody has yet volunteered. ?I don't really think with this kind of > list that bias is a serious danger as long as we don't make a professional > recruiter or job-hungry consultant the moderator.
I'll volunteer. If this becomes a major time sink then it's not working the way we intend it to anyway. > I think that all positions should be OK; if we limit it to kernel hacking > then > we're liable to only see 10 posts a year. ?Again, for reference we get about > 5-6 posts per week on postgresql-jobs. ?I don't expect traffic to be a real > problem. You might be underestimating the enormous number of administration positions out there that are part-Solaris (where that means anything from working with Solaris most of the time to "they have a machine running Solaris 2.5.1 in a different department you might pass once a year on your way to another Windows emergency"). Or maybe I'm overestimating the number of people who would post them to one of these lists. > I think the one real question is whether we want to make the list "principals > only" or whether we want to let recruiters post. ?We let recruiters post at > postgresql.org, but there's been discussion a couple of times about > prohibiting them because of one bait-and-switch recruiter. Given the way most companies hire these days, principals-only seems unlikely to yield anything other than a handful of opportunities at small companies. > From my perspective, a good jobs board helps grow the community, because it > allows hobby contributors to find FTE in opensolaris and then increase the > volume of their contributions. ?So we should do our best to encourage this. Agreed. I also think John's suggesting of splitting the list might be a reasonable compromise, although we'll need to be very diligent in making sure posts are categorised properly. An actual searchable database would be far more useful, whether our own or at a partner's site. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
