[socal-piggies] Job listings here: +1

[Christopher Mahan]

I spoke to several recruiters (one today at lunch over good salmon) who said
they are not comfortable sending to a mailing list when not specifically
allowed...

Christopher Mahan
818.671.1709
chris.mahan at gmail.com
http://christophermahan.com
On Jun 16, 2011 4:17 PM, "Jathan McCollum" <jathan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I really don't see what's wrong with job postings being approved by our
> benevolent moderator (Grig). It's worked for the most part so far.
>
> To channel my inner project manager: What problem are we trying to solve?
>
> Clearly it's to avoid the list being clogged with job postings, I get
that.
> I'm not convinced, however, we're at the point where we need to shake
things
> up and branch the list to socal-piggies-nojobs and socal-piggies-jobsplz.
>
> I have to admit, the fact that we've seen a notable increase (however
small)
> in Python-related job postings is actually a good thing for our community,
> email preferences aside.
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Daniel Greenfeld <pydanny at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> Mel,
>>
>> Doug is awesome. But he isn't the only recruiter. How do we go about
>> only allowing decent guys like Doug in but not allowing others? Should
>> we allow people/groups that sponsor Socal Piggies and Python in
>> general the ability to post job listings?
>>
>> I'm not being snarky here, I'm being very serious.
>>
>> Danny
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Mel Raab <automagc at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> > Regarding Doug's job posting: you've eaten his pizza, you've used his
>> > conference room, he's always polite and his contributions are
>> constructive,
>> > are you ever soured by his infrequent posts? So what's the problem?
>> >
>> > Regarding other job postings: you're part of a special interest group
to
>> > keep up on what's going on. There haven't been that many job postings
>> here,
>> > and each gives both an insight and an opportunity. Even if you're not
>> > looking for a job, don't you want to know what's going on? Don't you
>> want
>> > to help someone else out who might be looking for a job? Sure, if the
>> > volume increases, maybe the flow has to be redirected away from here
and
>> be
>> > better organized. Are we really at that point now?
>> >
>> > Regarding the volume and frequency of continued discussion on this
>> matter:
>> > Is there any chance we can get the meandering on job postings off this
>> > interest list? I think there are many venues for this type of
discussion
>> > when we have such ambivalent feelings and this should not be one of
them.
>> > ;)
>> >
>> > Mel Raab
>> >
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>>
>>
>>
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>
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