Re: RFC: Job listings

At 18.42 -0800 2004-03-07, Chris Shiflett wrote: >--- Larry Brown <larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com> wrote: >> I don't see how it could be to anyone's disadvantage. As a matter of >> fact, I think that it would be great to also have it available as a soap >> service as well. > >I was thinking the same thing after reading Ben's comment. I think people >might be more interested in local job boards, but a global resource could >provide an organized outlet for this by sharing this data via feeds. > >So, people can post job openings on this board, and local user groups can >syndicate this data based on local preferences, or they can even let their >users sign in and have even more personalized listings (bypassing the >necessity of searching). Along the same lines, local user groups can help >syndicate data back to the core PHP job resource as well. Personally I think a single global resource is the best. Since you would be able to search/browse specific locations, local job listings don't have much of an advantage, except perhaps that what companies put in their ads varies from country to country, and that's generally not a big issue. And people willing to relocate will probably appreciate having to look only in one place. That the job listings should be made available for syndication in some form or another always felt so obvious to me I may have failed to mention it. Of course both PHPCommunity.org and the local user groups would benefit from having the job listings displayed on the web sites of the local user groups, so I'm all for that. And users on PHPCommunity.org should be able to save default filters/searches for easier browsing, as well as have notification of new ads (that match their saved settings) sent to them by E-mail. -- Anders Hellström PHPCommunity.org: Open Source, Open Community Dumburken.net: Reklamfria TV-tablåer