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<body><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">On Donnerstag, 25. November 2021 14:44:56 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Hey,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> I know a company that would like to hire people with a skill set that</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> is relatively common inside the KDE community, the job is not strictly</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> KDE related, one could call it KDE-adjacent.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> How do we feel about such job offers being sent here?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> I have conflicting opinions myself.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Pro:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> * We want people of the community to get [potentially better] jobs</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Con:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> * The list could filled with job offers that are not really KDE</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> related since it's hard to define what "KDE-adjacent" really means.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> Possible mitigation of the Con: Allow only Supporting Member companies</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> to send such job offers, but then it also is a potential mitigation of</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">> the Pro :D</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">So it would cost 1000 Euro/year to be allowed to post job offers (</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"><a href="https://ev.kde.org/getinvolved/supporting-members/">https://ev.kde.org/getinvolved/supporting-members/</a> , formatting is partly broken on that page). If Linux & C++ & Qt would suffice as "KDE adjacent", then this would actually be cheap (one job ad for one month on stepstone is about 1000 Euro).</p>
<br /><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">Alex</p>
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