Awesome work Chris. Thank you for volunteering your time.
-Josh ________________________________ From: Code for Libraries <[email protected]> on behalf of Bess Sadler <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 9:43:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs.code4lib.org relaunched Hooray!! This board is such a great service to the community. Thank you, Chris. Bess > On May 11, 2017, at 11:02 AM, Chris Beer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
