[ogb-discuss] Handling of job postings

[Keith M Wesolowski]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:39:41AM +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:

> Basically what you covered in 2, and mentioned in your questions - I
> don't think it's necessarily of benefit for the community to start
> sending around a whole heap of system administration type jobs. I'd
> much prefer to keep it to purely development/contribution towards
> the goals of opensolaris.org if possible. Is that too harsh?

It's difficult to say here, I think.  My concern is that there are
thousands of Solaris system administrator positions out there and
probably fewer than a dozen OpenSolaris engineering ones.  If we
allowed the list to be flooded by the former - and it would be -
people only interested in the latter would be unlikely to subscribe
and the list would be a failure.

That said, it's difficult to make the case that rejecting such posts
would be consistent with our mission - we're supposed to care about
the entire ecosystem around OpenSolaris, which certainly includes that
kind of job.  A reasonable compromise might be to accept
advertisements only for those administrative posts which would deal
exclusively with one or more OpenSolaris distributions; that is, those
which are of unique interest and value to this community.  People
looking to be hired as administrators probably already have plenty of
more general places to look; recruiters advertising such positions
should make use of them.

A searchable OpenSolaris-related job board would be a useful addition
to our infrastructure; if we had such a thing, it would be reasonable
to accept all postings related to OpenSolaris in any nontrivial way.
It would also be a good way to finance operations (the Craigslist
business model).  Until then, I'd bias in favour of a smaller number
of more obviously interesting postings.

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