-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/20/2010 10:50 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote: > Someone in the "December 2010 Fedora Election Plan" thread mentioned > having a "job" site for Fedora. I wanted to extend this conversation a bit. > > So here's the way I see it. We could have a website that is a central > repository for jobs open within Fedora. It can be used for continuously > open jobs like writers and editors for the Docs Project to jobs that are > open every so often like leadership positions and specialty positions > like the Elections lead to positions on the different committees. > > Having this information on it's own page allows people looking to either > volunteer for the first time or looking for a new direction to take > within Fedora a one-stop shopping location. > > Each job would have a title, description, and a link to where to go to > get more information (think classified ads). We already do this a bit > on the Join page[1] but it isn't really good for short-term postings and > there isn't any way to get new positions out on the Planet or identi.ca > which is a better way to get people's attention. > I'd like to see this taken a bit further as well. It would be nice to have a public "classifieds" board where Fedora Hosted projects could put up listings of tasks they'd like to see get done. For example, if a project is looking to recruit additional coders, they could submit a posting looking for someone to solve certain entry-level bugs. If they want to expand their audience, maybe they put up a request for someone to translate their project into a particular language. MÃirÃn Duffy mentioned elsewhere a while back "imagine an RPG geared around helping folks earn points for #FLOSS contributions. it could work for any FLOSS project". I think this would be a terrific idea, especially if merged with a "job board" as described above. Even imaginary reward systems like Epic Win (http://www.rexbox.co.uk/epicwin/) serve as an excellent motivator. The concept of a "Level 30 Contributor" would be both entertaining and encouraging. - -- Stephen Gallagher RHCE 804006346421761 Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzALAQACgkQeiVVYja6o6MlHQCgove0XF+WgMgfVEEsVNe0y1da tkIAoLE7byJciu4vyMzUbAIOkwAiVizW =DlUn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
