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

[Ingo Klöcker]

Hi Albert,

On Donnerstag, 25. November 2021 14:44:56 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> 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'm not sure whether you are talking about jobs that will benefit KDE because 
working on KDE's offering (e.g. KDE Frameworks) is part of the job or whether 
you are talking about some Qt job which will not benefit KDE because the 
person will work on code that is orthogonal to KDE and maybe even proprietary.

I'm not okay with job offers for non-Free Software jobs. There are more than 
enough portals to look for non-Free Software C++ and Qt jobs.

I think I would be okay with Free Software job offers that are "KDE-adjacent". 
In fact, I might be interested.

> Pro:
>  * We want people of the community to get [potentially better] jobs

... which still allow them to contribute to KDE at least a bit.

> 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.

I think it should be restricted to jobs that benefit the Free Software 
ecosystem.

OTOH, I think I would prefer to use a separate dedicated mailing list for 
this. I have mixed feelings about mixing community discussions with job 
advertisements. Maybe it would be okay if the job ads were clearly marked in 
the subject, e.g. with "[Job]" so that one can easily filter them out 
(physically or mentally). There should also be a clear policy that replies to 
job offers must not be send to the list and that job offers should not be 
commented or discussed on this list. All of this would be much easier with a 
separate mailing list.

Regards,
Ingo
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