On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:11:28PM -0500, Peter McNabb wrote: > > First off, the ads are currently disabled since there is so much concern. One > of the intentions of putting up the ads is that they are job postings. They > map 1:1 with real jobs that members of the UUG (many of whom are in college > and looking for future jobs) may be interested in applying for.
If people want to hire UUG members, they should come to meetings and get to know people. Or give a cool and useful presentation. Or they should get involved on the mailing list. In other words, something that contributes to the club. Flash ads just distract and annoy. If you want to help UUG members find jobs, make it easier for them to post resumes and point companies to the site. For an excellent example of how to do this well, look at the PLUG site. Ryan Simpkins did a great job at putting the site together. > Please note that I talked with our CS department sponsor before even > considering putting up the job postings on the site. He looked in to the > possibility of putting them up and told me it was ok to do so. It took > several months before anything appeared. If I understand you correctly, the UUG was hosting annoying Flash ads for free, in the name of helping students find jobs? I don't think that giving free advertising space is the right way to do this. Give free resources to members, not to companies. > We have the ability to select what types of jobs appear. If people are > extremely against showing a job for a java programmer, it's possible to not > list "java" jobs. The hosting company is relatively new and is still making > connections with potential employers. I still don't see how this really benefits the club. > As they continue to develop, we'll have more control over appearance of job > postings for better integration to the UUG site. I'm not certain, but it may > be possible to use plain html in place of flash. Look at the PLUG site for a more tasteful way to hook up members with jobs. However, I think that the UUG shouldn't go as far as the PLUG. The UUG doesn't need as much sponsorship from companies as the PLUG does, and the majority of UUG members aren't actively looking for jobs. > The club has not collected any money, and we still need to determine if we > even want to do that. Something to consider is directly donating any > generated revenue to an organization of our choice. Why not donate to the FSF > as another way of showing our support for free software? > (https://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom) I'd rather have a clean and useful UUG site. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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