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

[Alexander Potashev]

Option 3: create a dedicated mailing list for job openings.

On Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 17:18 Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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