Re: GNOME Job Posting Board

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> 
> On 15 Oct 2008, at 20:31, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 
>> Many GNOME-friendly companies have job openings that they announce
>> on blogs, IRC, or random mailing list.
>>
>> Many GNOME hackers look for jobs and they crawl blogs, mailing lists,
>> or ask on IRC.
>>
>> Now there is a central place that community members can post
>> GNOME-related
>> job openings, and job seekers can subscribe to. Nothing fancy, a good old
>> wiki page:
>>
>>  http://live.gnome.org/Jobs
> 
> Any reason you didn't just set up a gnome-jobs mailing list?

1) Postings on a wiki can be removed, keeping a list of current openings at
any time,

2) Keep it simple.  This took me ten minutes to set up.  A mailing list would
have taken at least a few days,

3) Subscribing and unsubscribing to the wiki is much easier and more intuitive,

Cheers,

behdad

> There are
> many things that wikis aren't particularly good for, and this strikes me
> as being one of them.
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>