[advocacy-discuss] Motivating Contributions (was Proposal for OpenSolaris Mentoring Program)

[Sara Dornsife]

How do we promote it's existence? People are not going to just stumble 
on to this and I think it could be valuable.
Sara


Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Sara Dornsife wrote:
>> Bill Rushmore wrote:
>>> Do you realize that several months ago we started a OpenSolaris job 
>>> list and we have not a single post to the list?  The first place a 
>>> Sun HR recruiter should be going to look for a new hire is right 
>>> here to the community.  I went to www.sun.com/jobs and just for the 
>>> US I searched for "OpenSolaris" and I got back 99 hits.  So why not 
>>> a single post to the OpenSolaris job list?  Where else would Sun 
>>> find people anymore dedicated?  I believe that there have been a few 
>>> people hired from the community but it was never really publicized 
>>> heavily. It should, make a big deal about the fact that people that 
>>> make great contributions get recognized.
>>>   
>>
>> I didn't realize this list existed. In order for Sun HR to know, 
>> someone would have to tell them. Where is the list? I did a very 
>> quick search, but couldn't find it.
>> Sara
>
>
> It's called "opensolaris-jobs" and it's listed on the Mailman page 
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo I don't think there is a 
> Jive forum for it (which is good since Jive is bad). The list grew out 
> of an OGB conversation about 6 months ago.
>
> Jim