Hey Wouter, Brian, Perhaps is the best solution to open a gnome-jobs mailing list?
I agree that indeed the foundation's mailinglist is not the right one for Brian's jobvertising. However, certain people and subcontract companies might be interested in this kind of opportunities. Making this more easy for both suppliers and customers can only be positive for GNOME as a software platform and organization in my opinion. If people seek a mailing-list maintainer for this, I volunteer. I'm not saying I'm the best choice for this, though (I can imagine a certain degree of objectivity is necessary here). On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 10:39 +0200, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: > 2008-05-29 klockan 19:40 skrev Brian Ridgeway: > > [...] is looking to hire either two contractors or contract > > to full time individuals for our [...] site as soon as possible. > > This is NOT the right place to send announcements and job offers like these. > The Gnome Foundation list is a place to discuss matters related to, well, as > the name already very clearly implies, the Gnome Foundation. Your mail does > not fit under this topic and is therefore unappropriate and will be > considered as spam by many readers. > > > I have attached a short job description as well as a brochure concerning > > our product focus. > > Your mail has been sent to a public mailing list with may subscribers. Each > of them will have to download your really big and useless attachment. Those > paying for the bandwidth they use will have to pay to download your > unappropriate mail. > > I strongly urge you to refrain from making such posts in the future. > -- Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org http://pvanhoof.be/blog http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list