On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 at 10:56 Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 25 November 2021 14:44:56 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I know a company that would like to hire people with a skill set that > > is relatively common inside the KDE community, the job is not strictly > > KDE related, one could call it KDE-adjacent. > > > > How do we feel about such job offers being sent here? > > > > I have conflicting opinions myself. > > > > Pro: > > * We want people of the community to get [potentially better] jobs > > > > Con: > > * The list could filled with job offers that are not really KDE > > related since it's hard to define what "KDE-adjacent" really means. > > > > Possible mitigation of the Con: Allow only Supporting Member companies > > to send such job offers, but then it also is a potential mitigation of > > the Pro :D > > > > I think my opinion at this point would be "Let companies sent job > > offers to this list and if it becomes unmanageable we say 'OK, was > > worth a try, but it's not working, please don't send anymore'" > > > > What do y'all think? > > This list hasn't got a massive amount of traffic. Sounds like a good and > beneficial use of bandwidth to me. > > +1 > > Cheers > > Paul
I agree with Paul, one of the hardest selling points of free software is that “working for free doesn’t pay the bills”, I don’t mind having jobs that are somewhat related to kde on the list. > -- > Promotion & Communication > > www: http://kde.org > Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@kde > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ > Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde > > >
