[wlug_org] [wellylug] [Fwd: Drupal] Job Opportunity in Wellington (fwd)

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

Hey y'all...

I agree with Jethro, in that it would be nice if 100% Linux related jobs & such could be advertised here, but as Donald & Ewen say, if you start accepting advertising of any type, it gets very difficult to draw the line on what is not appropriate, when is an advert only 99% Linux, at what threshold do we (or does a moderator) decide a message is inappropriate?

So I'm happy with the no advertising approach as the easiest solution. There are indeed plenty of places where Linux related advertising is permitted, even encouraged, from from TradeMe to NZOSS.

We seem to revisit this question every year or two, and so far have always come to the same conclusion: stick with Ewen & zero advertising.

The wellylug buy/sell list was set up to provide somewhere for such advertising for LUG members, the lack of use & subscriptions to this list suggest that the vast majority of wellylug members do not see any need to have advertising available on a LUG list.


Cheers,

  Brent Wood


 

--- On Mon, 8/17/09, Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:

> From: Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com>
> Subject: Re: [wlug_org] [wellylug] [Fwd: Drupal] Job Opportunity in Wellington (fwd)
> To: "WellyLUG Organising Group" <wlug_org at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
> Date: Monday, August 17, 2009, 10:44 AM
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 10:39 +1200,
> Donald Gordon wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm quite happy with the status quo, myself.  If
> you want job ads, you
> > can always search on trademe/seek/etc.  If such
> ads are allowed, where
> > do you draw the line?  The ad that set this all
> off is something about
> > Drupal, a CMS that will run on many non-Linux OSes --
> really more of
> > an ad for a web developer with experience with a
> particular CMS.
> > There are lots of web developer jobs out there,
> carrying all of those
> > ads would ruin the list pretty quickly.
> 
> I'm sure some rules could be worked out defining what is or
> isn't
> acceptable.
> 
> 
> > If people were really keen on advertising, maybe
> another wellylug-ads
> > list could be set up, which could carry such
> traffic.  I could then
> > choose to not subscribe to that list, and it could be
> hosted by
> > someone who was keen on such ads.  Although
> arguably a website with an
> > rss feed would be just as useful.
> 
> There is a list for this, but it's not really used or
> promoted.
> 
> My problem with the current situation is that someone
> offering a
> genuinely 100% linux related service, such as training or a
> linux
> sysadmin job wouldn't be able to promote on the main list,
> which I think
> is a shame.
> 
> 
> regards,
> jethro
> 
> -- 
> Jethro Carr
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