Simon, First, sorry for the delayed response -- I'd missed this email initially.
This is a great development! It is indeed early days, but establishing something like this as we approach 1.0 could be a great boon for the Rust community, and we've been hearing rumblings of Rust job openings here and there already.
It's also wonderful that you want to give back to the Rust community, and we should discuss possible avenues for doing so. One possibility would be to fund contract work within the Rust ecosystem using the job board itself. Another possibility would be going through some kind of existing bounty system, like https://www.bountysource.com/ for example. Growing the ecosystem is going to be a crucial step as we put out the 1.0 release, and this kind of contribution could be really helpful.
Anyway, those are just some ideas. Please feel free to reach out to myself or others on the Rust team and let us know how we can help!
Aaron On 10/12/14 2:36 PM, Simon Flynn wrote:
Greeting Rustaceans, Although it is still early days (pre 1.0), would there be any interest in a jobs board specifically for the Rust community? I am one of the founders of Finance Jobs (https://www.financejobs.co) and although it's not written in Rust, as I have been dabbling a bit here and there, I can see it is going to have a great future. As such, I was thinking of taking our code and using it to create a Rust jobs board (http://www.rustlangjobs.com) and perhaps one day port it to Rust and then blog about the process :) It would be for-profit, but I am wanting to give back to the Rust community. After speaking to my other founder, we've agreed to give a percentage of any profits made towards the development of Rust. I'm not sure of any details yet, but was thinking along the lines of the Perl Foundation grants (http://www.perlfoundation.org/grant_benefits). Comments would be appreciated. Best, Simon
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