[ogb-discuss] Handling of job postings

[Josh Berkus]

Stephen,

>   3.  The moderators should not all be from a single organization or
>       business.

I'd be more concerned with finding a couple of committed moderators *at all*; 
note that nobody has yet volunteered.  I don't really think with this kind of 
list that bias is a serious danger as long as we don't make a professional 
recruiter or job-hungry consultant the moderator.

>   - Can jobs be related to all kinds of OpenSolaris-related work, or
>     just those that would involve contributions?  (Is a sysadmin
>     position requiring familiarity with an OpenSolaris distribution
>     okay?)

I think that all positions should be OK; if we limit it to kernel hacking then 
we're liable to only see 10 posts a year.  Again, for reference we get about 
5-6 posts per week on postgresql-jobs.  I don't expect traffic to be a real 
problem.

I think the one real question is whether we want to make the list "principals 
only" or whether we want to let recruiters post.  We let recruiters post at 
postgresql.org, but there's been discussion a couple of times about 
prohibiting them because of one bait-and-switch recruiter.

From my perspective, a good jobs board helps grow the community, because it 
allows hobby contributors to find FTE in opensolaris and then increase the 
volume of their contributions.  So we should do our best to encourage this.


-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco