Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs

Post by jarofgreen » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 6:48 AM UTC

mo wrote: post #88

jldugger wrote: post #74

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Sustainable as in "I can make a career of this" or "if this particular project wanes, I can always hop over to one of the many other projects." If you pad your listings, people will assume you need to because there _aren't_ many such jobs. Moreso over time as the ratio of filled listings to active recruitment grows -- if all visitors ever see are jobs that no longer accept applications, they will not come away with a…

Again: We am not "padding" anything. The site exists since 2012, and we keep old job listings around, as an archive and to help find interesting potential employers that may have jobs apart of what is listed. There's an open ticket about "fading them out" a little to make it even more obvious. There's plenty of recent jobs listed, so your point about "only ever seeing jobs that no longer accept applications" is moot.…

Post by mo » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 12:48 PM UTC

jarofgreen wrote: post #91

mo wrote: post #88

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Again: We am not "padding" anything. The site exists since 2012, and we keep old job listings around, as an archive and to help find interesting potential employers that may have jobs apart of what is listed. There's an open ticket about "fading them out" a little to make it even more obvious. There's plenty of recent jobs listed, so your point about "only ever seeing jobs that no longer accept applications" is moot.…

> There's an open ticket about "fading them out" a little to make it even more obvious. As someone who recently was job hunting and come across another site with this problem: absolutely do this. You get the bonus of instantly showing the user which jobs are current, so they don't notice only after wasting time and then jump to the assumption the site is dead. You show users that you take the up-to-dateness of the da…

Post by pc86 » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 1:33 PM UTC

gghh wrote: post #77

jancborchardt wrote: post #57

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If you’re up for contributing a simple timeout or something like that I guess the developers would appreciate that a lot :) https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/

I don't think so, somewhere else in this thread the developer of this job board says that his intention is to keep all listings forever, as this would prove that paid FOSS jobs exists in abundance. IMO a debatable approach. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13920594

Post by zng » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 2:13 AM UTC

tannhaeuser wrote: post #7

Congrats, there seem to be interesting offerings and employers on fossjobs.net. What are the criteria to be listed on fossjobs.net? Right now, I'm also seeing some admin/devops jobs that are only related to F/OSS insofar as eg. Linux is being used, but won't contribute to anything distributable under F/OSS licenses.

Post by mo » Fri, Mar 24, 2017, 11:53 PM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #95

gghh wrote: post #77

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I don't think so, somewhere else in this thread the developer of this job board says that his intention is to keep all listings forever, as this would prove that paid FOSS jobs exists in abundance. IMO a debatable approach. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13920594

I think that's silly. There could have been hundreds of well-paid FOSS jobs in 2013. That doesn't matter at all if there are none in 2017. It doesn't even prove anyone was ever hired for that job, only that it was posted. There's certainly analytical value in having every FOSS job you could have ever seen, but none for the end user.