"Job Openings" site for Fedora

[Paul Frields]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> 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.
>>
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> 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.
>
> Máirín 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.

Aren't there some vibrant free software community services out in the
wild that do this already, which we could leverage for this sort of
problem?

Also, related but not the same -- a while ago Mike McGrath created a
team for dealing with short-term, targeted needs that are beyond
entry-level:
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Services
I mention it just because I think it's a great idea that can always
use people who are beyond novices but are looking to give back and
want to start by sinking their teeth into a short-term, well-bounded
problem.

Paul