Today, we are proud to announce a new section of our website. After a story was posted on our website last month, readers let us know that they would welcome a job-related area of our website. So today, we are announcing jobs.osnews.com. Read on for details. We envision jobs.osnews.com serving two roles:
- We want to offer employers a place to find technical people without all the red tape. Jobs.OSAlert is a simple web site with an easy-to-use interface that allows you to quickly and easily find a job.
- Like our companion site Gnomefiles, we want to offer a service to the community. Open source projects often need a focused way to connect with new developers. Since our site and staff utilize a number of free (as in “speech”) programs, we want to do our part to support them.
Jobs.OSAlert is currently a “beta” product, and as such, is currently completely free. During the beta period, all job posting will be free. You can post as many jobs as you’d like. When the beta period is up, it is likely that we will be charging a small but painless fee for jobs listings (for commercial entities only). Open source projects will never have to worry about us charging for job postings. Our commitment is to being a free service for these projects.
A few more notes: employer registration is currently in “approval mode.” Each registration must be approved manually, so it may be several minutes or hours before you are allowed to post a job after registration.
Jobs listed on Jobs.OSAlert are completely and totally independent of this the main www.osnews.com site, so we cannot connect your company, your comments, etc to your OSN account. Furthermore, the site stores no information about our users at all. Information is kept only is cookies on your computer and can be cleared at any time. A backup/restore console allows you to take your “session” with you or back it up, but assures your privacy by not linking your data to a person in any way.
Unlike this site, Jobs.OSAlert is built for modern browsers and uses code that requires active scripting and CSS to be enabled. We encourage you to read the About section for more on this.
If you are the developer of an open source project looking for developers, feel free to register and post an opening.
Any questions or comments about how the site works should be posted in the comments here.
I first thought, eh, geography, the less I have to travel the better life is and the more I keep, wouldn’t have anything near here. Click and the lead job is just down the street, that was impressive.
sweeeeeeet
This looks like a good idea. OSAlert attracts a fair share of talented techies and in today’s market most are always on the lookout for better prospects. Perhaps I’ll post opportunities for my new business when it gets off the ground. I’m hoping to work out the details within the next 6 months and if for some reason that doesn’t flesh out I’ll still be able to search this site for a job.
This nice, paying and open source jobs. I always see developers wanted on various projects, it’ll be nice to see them in one place.
IE 7 final release:
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Goddamn smart quotes.
Fixed.
Perfect. Thanks Adam
It would be nice if you could add the location of the position beside the title, rather than at the bottom of the job description.
I like the aesthetics of site: smart but clean and fast. Looks good on FF2.0 Ubuntu 1024×768.
I wonder if there is going to be a clearer distinction needed between paying and non-paying positions? I think of them as two different types of search. I suppose that issues of this sort will become more apparent when the site starts to fill up with jobs content.
Edited 2006-12-05 07:46
Backup Job Board to OSAlert.com don’t work neither in IE 6 nor FF 2.
Error message:
“Uh-oh! There has been an error of some sort!”
An optional integration with the OSAlert.com account database would be helpful. If someone has an OSAlert.com account he is also logged in when he visit the “jobs” sub-website; of course you can make it optional.
btw. “Careerbuilder” looks a bit out-of-place and don’t fit with the rest of the website (even outsourced service can be customed in most cases). And the “Careerbuilder” has some graphical glitches in both IE 6 and FF 2.
But overall, good implementation.
P.S.: “Database Queries” hidden info at the bottom is interesting (and useful for the admin/coder).
Backup to OSAlert definitely works in Firefox 2 – it’s been tested on Mac and PC. I don’t have access to IE6 right this minute, but it should work just fine, since it’s all server side.
Integration with the main site is not planned right now, because there’s *no registration* for users, and therefore nothing to integrate. I’d rather not have anyone with an OSAlert account immediately become an employer, so I’m not sure where to go with that.
Careerbuilder site definitely needs some touch up, and I’ll take care of that today.
Thanks.
Backup to OSAlert definitely works in Firefox 2 – it’s been tested on Mac and PC. I don’t have access to IE6 right this minute, but it should work just fine, since it’s all server side.
I have tried it now again and it looks it’s a bug.
If a new user don’t has “pinned” any job but try to “backup” for some kind of reasons (maybe he just is trying out the feature the first time), the mentioned error got displayed.
If the user has already pinned one job and then un-pin it again and then “backup” to server, there is no error shown. Tested with three computers (Win32) and six different browsers (IE 6, FF 1.5, FF 2).
Ah, ok. I see the problem. Yes, if there’s nothing to backup, it won’t back up.
I have made it clearer by removing the button altogether if you have nothing to backup.
I find this idea beautiful, especially for OS development projects, where finding necessary skiled person may be a challenge even for paid work!
Thanks for introducing the service, I hope it’s going to work for the good of FOSS world.