How do we feel about non 100% KDE job offers being sent here?

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 at 10:56 Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, 25 November 2021 14:44:56 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I know a company that would like to hire people with a skill set that
> > is relatively common inside the KDE community, the job is not strictly
> > KDE related, one could call it KDE-adjacent.
> >
> > How do we feel about such job offers being sent here?
> >
> > I have conflicting opinions myself.
> >
> > Pro:
> >  * We want people of the community to get [potentially better] jobs
> >
> > Con:
> >  * The list could filled with job offers that are not really KDE
> > related since it's hard to define what "KDE-adjacent" really means.
> >
> > Possible mitigation of the Con: Allow only Supporting Member companies
> > to send such job offers, but then it also is a potential mitigation of
> > the Pro :D
> >
> > I think my opinion at this point would be "Let companies sent job
> > offers to this list and if it becomes unmanageable we say 'OK, was
> > worth a try, but it's not working, please don't send anymore'"
> >
> > What do y'all think?
>
> This list hasn't got a massive amount of traffic. Sounds like a good and
> beneficial use of bandwidth to me.
>
> +1
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul


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.



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