Ubuntu Job Fair

[Nicholas Skaggs]

On 09/18/2014 01:40 PM, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Daniel Holbach
> <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Who could imagine making use of this as a team?
> We used to have this idea of "Ubuntu Wanted" that was basically a `job
> board` with two sections. "Looking to Volunteer", and "Needs
> Volunteers". Then people and projects would have cards:
>
>      Name: James Hetfield
>      Skills: Python, QML, Django
>      Interests: Desktop, plumbing, web work
>
> And various projects could post:
>
>     Name: Ubuntu Desktop
>     Skills Needed: QML, Python
>     Task: We need a clock widget to do foo.
>
> Then you match people to cards. The skills are just freeform tags so
> if you're a Python person and want to just search those you click on
> that. At the time we wanted to write an entire app, etc, but these
> days there's other OSS projects out there:
>
> http://www.jobberbase.com/
> http://www.joobsbox.com/
>
>
>
^^ I like this open job board idea. Keep is stupidly simple and free 
flowing. Having one place to point people to (that 1 person or team is 
NOT responsible to somehow update) sounds brilliant.

Nicholas