Re: Idea: jobs.postgresql.org

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Justin Clift wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Justin Clift wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > It is definitely something interesting, and there are a fair few
> > > PostgreSQL jobs out there.
> > >
> > > The address Joe mentioned is correct, I'm just so short of time now I
> > > haven't been able to do much in the way of site maintenance recently, so
> > > that page hasn't been updated in ages.
> >
> > If you want we can merge jobs into the main site for now.
>
>
> Sounds good to me.  When it's up, the jobs page is the third most
> popular techdocs page people visit.  The hardest part I've found is
> knowing when jobs have been filled, because people routinely "forget" to
> say when.
>
> An attitude I've found dissapointing is the weird belief a number of
> agencies have that there must be "some kind of catch" to putting their
> PostgreSQL related jobs online for free.  No charge, no banner
> advertising, etc.  You'd think they'd never heard of "Community Spirit".

We can talk to Marc, but we can set it up as 1) someone looking for work
gets a free listing, 2) a company looking for someone gets a free listing,
but 3) a headhunter pays $10/listing - or "donates" it to postgresql.org
or run it thru pgsql.com of if neither do we can run it thru libpq.com.

> A lot of the stuff I do on the techdocs site is "lets see if this works
> and is beneficial".  The jobs section was and is, and so I'm happy for
> it to become something more, main site, sub-domain, whatever.

That's where idocs came from.  Now when it doesn't work my mailbox fills
up quickly!

Vince.
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