Heya all- A massive thank you to you, Ed, for all the work you do for this community - including supporting jobs.code4lib.org for so long. Thank you thank you thank you.
A proposal to the rest of this list: I know I am, but are there others interested in pooling our knowledge, bandwidth, and resources to look towards supporting the future of jobs.code4lib.org? Perhaps if there is a group of folks, we could have a video chat/call/other in the next week or so to discuss what needs to be done, to then define a way forward? If you’re interested… respond to this message and we’ll coordinate a small group? I will keep putting proposals out there as questions? Thanks, Christina On 10/18/16, 4:51 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Ed Summers" <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG on behalf of e...@pobox.com> wrote: >Hi everyone, > >If you have used jobs.code4lib.org in the past you may have noticed that job >posting has not really been functional for the past few weeks. The root cause >of this was the eventual shutdown of Google's Freebase API, which the >application relied on heavily for tagging employers, locations and subjects. >You can read more about it in this issue ticket if you are interested: > > https://github.com/code4lib/shortimer/issues/38 > >Unfortunately I don't have the bandwidth to refactor the code at this point. >Before the shutdown of the Freebase API I was actually finding it difficult to >moderate the many new jobs that would show up via RSS. In theory this could've >been done by any logged in user, but I was often the only person doing it. I'm >not complaining--I was the one who set it up to to work this way. I also have >been paying $20/month to host it, which isn't a lot -- but hey, it adds up. > >So .... this is all to say, on November 1st I am planning on creating a static >version of the site, and dumping the data as JSON, which I will put up on >Internet Archive for anyone else wanting to create a similar service. The code >will continue to live up at GitHub [1]. > >I apologize if this rubs anyone the wrong way, but it is super to see people >still posting jobs to the email list as they always have. Applications age >like fish, data ages wine -- or so they say... > >//Ed > >[1] https://github.com/code4lib/shortimer
