I think a mailing list is a good idea, but I think it should have some formatting guidelines (not "rules", just guidelines). Example: * The city the job is located in should appear first on the Subject line. * Specific skills needed should appear on the email. That's just my twenty cents. - Scott Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Developers, developers, developers ... > > We had a short discussion about "How to offer jobs / How to search for > people who know CentOS" within the existing CentOS infrastructure. We > dismissed the idea of putting a "Jobs forum" at > <http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/>, neither did we want a section on > the web site which would have to be cared about by some sort of > editorial staff. > > (Note: We can still discuss about that) > > What we thought about is a CentOS-jobs mailing list to which you can > send a mail when you want to offer a job in which CentOS plays a role. > > Some (rather unsorted) thoughts which came up: > > - Do we also want people to be able to search for jobs (my opinion: No) > - should that list be moderated (my opinion: Yes - by maybe more than > one person) > - Which standards do we need for a job to be posted there? That helps > weeding out some "get criminal quick" schemes or other snowball > schemes. > - Do we want an unmoderated discussion list besides that for discussing > about job offers - like on Usenet (my opinion: No, that really is a > way for quick and lasting flame fests) > > And the biggest questions: Do we need that all? Do you have another > vision of how we can do those job offerings within our infrastructure? > Do you have experiences with stuff like that? Do *you* want to moderate > that list (or at least help with that)? > > Discuss. I'd be particularly interested in the standards for job > offerings. > > Cheers, > > Ralph > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >