Add Page for Job postings / consulting requests

[hackajesse]

We get a lot of these and it would be cool to have a board asking for volunteers, offering contact info, etc.

Some fun options for open source software:
http://www.jobberbase.com/
http://www.jamit.com/

[jszwedko]

This would be a bit of an undertaking (including the maintenance, promotion, and curation aspects), so I'd like to push back a little and see if this is really something we want to take on. If there is enough need that is most easily served in this manner, I'm happy to help implement this though.

Currently it looks like these opportunities are shared via Slack and in-person at the Hack Night meet-ups.

Thoughts @hackajesse @sfbrigade/website-tools-core-team ?

[afomi]

I think this is a good topic for the Project Launch team. I'm not sure how necessary this is for CfSF. CfA and Sunlight Labs have jobs boards. Basically, not sure that a job board is worth standing up and maintaining.

[hackajesse]

@afomi I agree that we should definitely evaluate. It's just that I get approached fairly regularly (1x/week) to have folks pitch/recruit for their company. I'm wondering about opportunities for revenue generation and for servicing our community.

Honestly, this is unlikely to happen in the near term precisely because of the maintenance / support needs. We may very well become a funded organization in the coming year, though, at which point it could become worth our while.

I really like the suggestion of making this a Project Launch team project. They can do a lot of the prep, market / community evaluation / analysis and ultimately figure out if the ROI is sufficient. Once we have the resources to keep it up, we can launch something as an informed org if it makes sense.

[afomi]

cool 👍

as with most things, I wonder what the Minimum Viable implementation looks like. In this case, it sounds like a Google Form would get us 90% there.

[jszwedko]

Thanks for the additional info @hackajesse! Gonna icebox this one for now, but it sounds like something we can revisit in the coming year.