[advocacy-discuss] LinkedIn OpenSolaris Group

[Jim Grisanzio]

Bill Rushmore wrote:
> Mads Toftum wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:51:11PM -0800, Rich Teer wrote:
>>   
>>> Are the recruiters members of the OpenSolaris community?  If yes, then
>>> by all means let 'em join!  But if they're just looking for a way to
>>> gather names I'd be hesitant to say yes.
>>>
>>>     
>> Agreed.
>> We have http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-jobs
>> but never got any traffic there - if they can't even be bothered to
>> write a mail, then I don't think we should be helping.
>>
>> vh
>>
>> Mads Toftum
>>   
> Mads beat me too this point but I'll add some more to this and with my 
> +1.  I volunteered to be an admin on the jobs list and we have not had a 
> single post to the list.  I have received Linked in request from 
> recruiters that I really never worked with, just somehow found my resume 
> on a job board.  So I vote no, until they at least start using the mail 
> list and maybe show they're really interested in recruiting people 
> because they are involved with OpenSolaris and not just a warm body that 
> fogs a mirror.

Ok, but how do we advertise the list? I doubt many people even know.

Jim
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