On 2010-01-24 12:07:55 (+0100), Alexander Mikhailian <mikhailian@mova.org> wrote:
At the last FOSDEM, I left a pile of paper ads in the job corner. The ads were for a sysadmin job in one of the european space centers. Back in time, I felt a little awkward with regards to the rules. Was the job open source related? Definitely, it was. Was it an open source job? Definitely, not.
What I knew for sure is that the job opportunity was geeky enough to please the FOSDEM crowd.
Now, the questions:
Can FOSDEM allow for geeky job ads that are not exactly about "Open Source Development" but are interesting for FOSDEM visitors?
How to deal with the confusing rules (Open Source Related vs. NO Non-Open Source Jobs)
And a suggestion:
Drop all rules and make the job corner a self-organizing place. None will post SAP and Sharepoint job ads there anyway.
Yes - I don't know who came up with the bright idea to overly formalize this, though I have some idea, but it's clearly over the top. I feel there should be one rule: "use your common sense". I realize that common sense is surprisingly uncommon in these cloudy days, but FOSDEM visitors are expected to have some. If in doubt, leave it out. FOSDEM staff (either collectively or individually) will keep an eye on the job corner and eject things which common sense should not have allowed in in the first place. - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip@fosdem.org subscribed to the list. ... and this is only possible at a university, where we have vast amounts of slave-- student labour. -- James Whittaker, giving a seminar on "How to Break Software"