From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 16 20:32:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (superior.mooseriver.com [208.138.31.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5B111001 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:32:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04409; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:31:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgrosch) Message-ID: <19990216203145.A4268@mooseriver.com> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:31:45 -0800 From: Josef Grosch To: Greg Lehey , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Amancio Hasty Cc: Brandon Gillespie , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD administrator/consultant db on web... Reply-To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com References: <199902161802.KAA45614@rah.star-gate.com> <22260.919188982@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990216114340.A2160@mooseriver.com> <19990217110944.T515@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19990217110944.T515@lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 11:09:44AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 11:09:44AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 February 1999 at 11:43:40 -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 10:16:22AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >> Well, if somebody wants to create and actively maintain a jobs page, I > >> won't stand in their way. It would have to be actively maintained, > >> however, since there's nothing more useless than a page full of stale > >> job listings that have already been filled and resumes from people who > >> went back to full-time employment long ago. If that happens, people > >> will stop visiting the page and we'll have simply wasted our time. > > > > On my list of things to do is to create a FreeBSD jobs page for BAFUG. Not > > only is stale job listings useless so are jobs hundres of miles away. Jobs > > are local and job listing should also be. > > I disagree. First, a lot of the work I do is in North America. > Secondly, some areas are so underpopulated that they would have to > find somebody elsewhere. Where do they look if there are 30 different > sites? > > I think the correct way to do this would be to start with a single > world-wide page and subdivide when it gets too big. It's obviously a > good idea to sort it geographically. Sorry, I guess I did not express my idea with any clarity. I rarely hear of jobs in Chicago or Perth but I do hear of jobs in the Bay Area and in LA. Yes, there should be a central point of reference but people in the various geographic areas should run their own page. If there is one central page instead of a page of links that would means either one person will be getting a lot of job postings to add to the page or many people have read/write privileges on this web site. Neither situation is optimal. A page of links to geographicly maintained pages seems a good compromise. My $0.002 Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.0 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message