Hi all, Yesterday (with help from Ryan Wick) I relaunched a brand new, completely rewritten https://jobs.code4lib.org <https://jobs.code4lib.org/> with the full job posting history from shortimer and job postings to this list. As before, messages to CODE4LIB-L are aggregated and presented in the application (after a quick moderator review).
In this first iteration, I tried to capture the essential features of the application, which means there’s plenty of opportunity for improvements. The code is available at https://github.com/code4lib/job_board <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board>, and I’d like to call out a couple tickets that may be good starting places for new contributors: - Include the job title and employer in (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/28 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/28>) - Send new job notifications to the code4lib slack #jobs channel (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/30 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/30>) And some operations tasks: - Add application monitoring (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/25 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/25>) - Implement continuous deployment (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/32 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/32>) There are also some more data-driven research tasks: - Automated tag extraction (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/8 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/8>) - Job location geocoding and display (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/4 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/4>) - Better job searching tools (https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/7 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/7>) If you have questions, comments, or want to get involved, I’d strongly encourage discussion using github issues on the project, and I’m cbeer in the code4lib IRC + slack channels. Thanks, Chris > On Oct 18, 2016, at 1:51 PM, Ed Summers <[email protected]> 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
