[ale] [ADMIN] Partner opportunity for an Employment Listing Service

Wolf Halton wolf.halton at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 06:10:27 EDT 2011


One question (from the South Pole) is  "would the 'jobs posted' quality be
better with the new system?"  Jobs visibility would be better.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> My rule so far on the ale-jobs list has been if it involves IT I approve it
> for the single reason as MW said. EVERYONE on ALE os interested in Linux so
> getting paid to "do windows" is an opportunity to replace with a better OS.
> Besides there arw people who arw Linux hobbiests who are still windows
> professionals. I want them employed as well as subversives :-)
> As far as this link-in goes, I think any Linux distro as at least " also
> nice to have experience " will be sufficient.  Clearly a job requiring full
> Linux skills will be awesome. Linux in the job title is beyond awesome!
> That said, if the ratio of non-Linux to Linux is "too high" (ill defined
> for the moment ) then I'll look at the filters and see about some
> rebalancing.
> I'm +1 on the payments to EFF reports and look forward to those becoming
> part of the regular meeting news and maybe a page on the site.
> Major coolness all around. :-}
> On Sep 6, 2011 6:28 PM, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 18:05 -0400, The Don Lachlan wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 05:11:34PM -0400, arxaaron wrote:
> >> > On 2011/09/06, at 15:31 , Bob Toxen wrote:
> >> > > I agree with this, especially donating to EFF, so long as the
> listings
> >> > > are limited to Linux (maybe also Unix) in Metro Atlanta AND the
> >> > > bandwidth for browsing the ALE home page isn't increased too much.
> >> > > Perhaps a small graphic or textual hypertext link.
> >> > Jim Kinney currently moderates the ale-jobs list manually. The
> standing
> >> > policy has been a bit more open than the Linux.org example for
> JobThread.
> >> > We figure if Linux, *nix, Solaris, FreeBSD or Open Source are
> mentioned
> >> > anywhere in the job descriptions then the post has relevance to ALE
> job
> >> > seekers.
> >
> >> I agree with a bit more openness. A lot of GNU/Linux nerds make their
> living
> >> off something without "Linux" as the dominant keyword or responsibility.
> I
> >> think the list can stay "on-topic" while allowing job postings for
> many/all
> >> F/L/OSS operating systems and common apps, tools, languages, et al.
> >
> >> That said, if a job posting for a DB2 admin on AIX comes through, there
> will
> >> be blood. :)
> >
> > Now now... Never turn down an opportunity to evangelize.
> >
> >> -L
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mike
> > --
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