On Thu, January 31, 2008 17:15, Corey Edwards wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:21 -0700, Ryan Simpkins wrote: >> plug-jobs (for those desperately seeking work, and recruiters that spam me). >> plug-announce (meeting announcements, and other important stuff) > > Seems like we discuss this every year or so. I prefer to keep job > announcements on the main list. There's more exposure to potential > applicants.
I agree Corey. That will not change. Jobs will still come to the main list. I simply want to have a method to make it easier for the recruiters to participate and get those jobs to us. I don't suspect many will subscribe unless they are only interested in jobs. I'm sure there will be some give and take as we find the right balance. At the end of the day - it is about enhancing participation and making it easier to get the message out. I think PLUG needs to do a better job offering employment information to the members. Eventually we will get there... and we are actually talking with a commercial company about adding to what we currently do. They could get us more interesting/targeted job listings that members might actually care about to enhance what we already have. We'll see how it goes. It is one of the unofficial goals for 2008. What I'm thinking: post your jobs to plug-jobs, it gets posted to the main mailing list. Then, it ends up in an archive on the web site (in a database) where you can easily view the most recently posted jobs. We will then enhance that list (hopefully) with additional targeted jobs listings that make sense for the group. If you post your job to just 'plug' you still would get the whole list, but your job wouldn't be indexed on plug.org. The choice would be yours. Does that make sense? If you are looking for a job, and that is all, you can subscribe to the plug-jobs list and get a feed of jobs as they come in. You could also subscribe to the PLUG jobs RSS feed on plug.org and keep up to date that way. Basically I'm going to be trying a lot of different things, and tweaking as we go. Hopefully everyone is pleased with the outcome, and at the end of the day you feel PLUG is offering you a real _service_ rather than just a mailing-list. And, that (with a bit of luck) will encourage you to participate in other ways with the group. -Ryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
