[advocacy-discuss] LinkedIn OpenSolaris Group

[Stephen Hahn]

* Bill Rushmore <bill at rushmores.net> [2007-12-12 14:27]:
> 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.
> >   
> 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.

  The question seems to be "how to we help recruiters find
  opensolaris-jobs?"  Any ideas?  (Should Advocacy have its own little
  rotation of banner or box ads on the opensolaris.org page?)

  - Stephen

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