From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 16 16:40: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0C510F02 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:39:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA12083; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:09:47 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA09716; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:09:45 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990217110944.T515@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:09:44 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Amancio Hasty Cc: Brandon Gillespie , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD administrator/consultant db on web... References: <199902161802.KAA45614@rah.star-gate.com> <22260.919188982@zippy.cdrom.com> <19990216114340.A2160@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990216114340.A2160@mooseriver.com>; from Josef Grosch on Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:43:40AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 16 February 1999 at 11:43:40 -0800, Josef Grosch wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 10:16:22AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Well, if somebody wants to create and actively maintain a jobs page, I >> won't stand in their way. It would have to be actively maintained, >> however, since there's nothing more useless than a page full of stale >> job listings that have already been filled and resumes from people who >> went back to full-time employment long ago. If that happens, people >> will stop visiting the page and we'll have simply wasted our time. > > On my list of things to do is to create a FreeBSD jobs page for BAFUG. Not > only is stale job listings useless so are jobs hundres of miles away. Jobs > are local and job listing should also be. I disagree. First, a lot of the work I do is in North America. Secondly, some areas are so underpopulated that they would have to find somebody elsewhere. Where do they look if there are 30 different sites? I think the correct way to do this would be to start with a single world-wide page and subdivide when it gets too big. It's obviously a good idea to sort it geographically. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message