On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:39:41AM +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > Basically what you covered in 2, and mentioned in your questions - I > don't think it's necessarily of benefit for the community to start > sending around a whole heap of system administration type jobs. I'd > much prefer to keep it to purely development/contribution towards > the goals of opensolaris.org if possible. Is that too harsh?
It's difficult to say here, I think. My concern is that there are thousands of Solaris system administrator positions out there and probably fewer than a dozen OpenSolaris engineering ones. If we allowed the list to be flooded by the former - and it would be - people only interested in the latter would be unlikely to subscribe and the list would be a failure. That said, it's difficult to make the case that rejecting such posts would be consistent with our mission - we're supposed to care about the entire ecosystem around OpenSolaris, which certainly includes that kind of job. A reasonable compromise might be to accept advertisements only for those administrative posts which would deal exclusively with one or more OpenSolaris distributions; that is, those which are of unique interest and value to this community. People looking to be hired as administrators probably already have plenty of more general places to look; recruiters advertising such positions should make use of them. A searchable OpenSolaris-related job board would be a useful addition to our infrastructure; if we had such a thing, it would be reasonable to accept all postings related to OpenSolaris in any nontrivial way. It would also be a good way to finance operations (the Craigslist business model). Until then, I'd bias in favour of a smaller number of more obviously interesting postings. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
