<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 at 10:56 Paul Brown <<a href="mailto:paul.brown@kde.org">paul.brown@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">On Thursday, 25 November 2021 14:44:56 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote:<br>
> Hey,<br>
> <br>
> I know a company that would like to hire people with a skill set that<br>
> is relatively common inside the KDE community, the job is not strictly<br>
> KDE related, one could call it KDE-adjacent.<br>
> <br>
> How do we feel about such job offers being sent here?<br>
> <br>
> I have conflicting opinions myself.<br>
> <br>
> Pro:<br>
> * We want people of the community to get [potentially better] jobs<br>
> <br>
> Con:<br>
> * The list could filled with job offers that are not really KDE<br>
> related since it's hard to define what "KDE-adjacent" really means.<br>
> <br>
> Possible mitigation of the Con: Allow only Supporting Member companies<br>
> to send such job offers, but then it also is a potential mitigation of<br>
> the Pro :D<br>
> <br>
> I think my opinion at this point would be "Let companies sent job<br>
> offers to this list and if it becomes unmanageable we say 'OK, was<br>
> worth a try, but it's not working, please don't send anymore'"<br>
> <br>
> What do y'all think?<br>
<br>
This list hasn't got a massive amount of traffic. Sounds like a good and <br>
beneficial use of bandwidth to me.<br>
<br>
+1<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<br>
Paul</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I agree with Paul, one of the hardest selling points of free software is that “working for free doesn’t pay the bills”, I don’t mind having jobs that are somewhat related to kde on the list.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"><br>
-- <br>
Promotion & Communication<br>
<br>
www: <a href="http://kde.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://kde.org</a><br>
Mastodon: <a href="https://mastodon.technology/@kde" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mastodon.technology/@kde</a><br>
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kde/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/kde/</a><br>
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kdecommunity" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/kdecommunity</a><br>
LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde</a><br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div></div>