Quoting Jesse Zbikowski (embeddedlinuxguy(a)gmail.com):
> Maybe we could also direct job posters to the sf-lug info page
> http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
Let's talk about that.
It might be doing no favour to SF-LUG, since a recruiter who ignores
BALUG's terse bold-text guideline is unlikely to heed SF-LUG's less
prominent and more verbose one to send jobs postings to jim(a)well.com .
More to the point, IMO, your suggestion is mostly redundant to what we
already do. Why do I say that? Because the hyperlink from balug-talk's
listinfo page (http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org)
to 'SVLUG Jobs' is to a page with a _comprehensive_ list of places to
send Linux jobs postings in the Bay Area, and item #6 of 13 on that list
is 'SF-LUG [link] accepts jobs postings via the listadmin'.
I am intimately familiar with that page and its contents
(http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/jobs), because I maintain it.
Frankly, I think that SF-LUG link, with a reminder that SF-LUG accepts
jobs postings _via the listadmin_, is inherently to be preferred to
sending people directly to the SF-LUG listinfo page, which is a bit less
clear and invites more of these 'I apologise in advance if I made a
mistake' dances.
> This seems like the most appropriate place for San Francisco-based
> Linux developer jobs, since SVLUG is for the valley and BayLisa is for
> sysadmins.
Well, as a data point, I might point out that the Cisco guy was
advertising a _San Jose_ software engineering job, and that this is, in
my experience, pretty typical of the recruiters who come charging in and
ignoring BALUG's mailing list rules.
Looking on the bright side, recruiter misbehaviour returning to
normal levels might be a leading indicator for recovery of the economy.
(This one also did not bother to take our helpful suggestion about
better places to post.)
I've set the 'moderated' flag on Amela's balug-talk subscription.
----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> -----
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:01:18 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com>
To: balug-talk(a)lists.balug.org
Subject: Re: [BALUG-Talk] Cisco - Sr. Linux Engineer - Web 2.0 Start-up
Business Unit
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.
Quoting Art Amela -X (aamela - Spherion at Cisco) (aamela(a)cisco.com):
> Hi Balug,
>
>
>
> I hope this message is appropriate. I did my best to review some of the
> guidelines but did not see anything forbidding job opportunities. If I
> made a mistake please accept my apologies in advance.
Let's see: To join this mailing list preparatory to posting, you first
had to go to http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org .
Where, on line two, in bold type, it says:
Linux jobs postings are welcome and ALLOWED ONLY FROM THOSE RECENTLY
HAVING GIVEN A TECHNICAL PRESENTATION AT A BALUG MEETING (or confirmed
to do so at an upcoming BALUG meeting) (limit, one e-mail posting item
per technical presentation). (Those not doing such a presentation may
want to post elsewhere, such as SVLUG Jobs or BayLISA Jobs.)
After seeing that, you joined and posted.
I once heard Eric Raymond opine that technical people are a bit
different from the general run of corporate employees, in that they
tend to actually take personally being lied to, especially when it is
done clumsily.
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