Group VS Forum (was [consulting] Re: Drupal Jobs)

[Gregory Heller]

I am not sure how the forum and the jobs group would be different other
than that with the group you would be able to have a cck node that
people could create, where as a forum only has forum posts.

Group members should specifically be people who are available
(generally) to do work, or are regularly looking for people to do work
for them.

We were having a discussion a while back about a "professionals"
directory.  IMHO, "jobs" sounds a little pedestrian.  A lot of people
working on drupal or drupal sites and services think of it as more than
just a "job"

But back to the functionality:
The cck date field option kind of sucks, you have to use a
yyyymmddhhmmss format (AFAIK).

I think that one problem, generally, with job listings or any
"classified" listings is follow up from the lister.  It would be very
useful if listings would expire, or if there was some way to enforce a
person listing a job to update the job listing (to close it, or keep it
open).


Jason Diceman wrote:
> How does a group compare to a forum in terms of useful features for
> hosting a Drupal paid work service?
>
> (+1 for a unified plan.  I really like "jobs.drupal.org"  - it's catchy.)
>
> -jd
>
> Harry Slaughter wrote:
>> Jason Diceman wrote:
>>> Hye Boris and all
>>>> Hmmm....I'm thinking I should open a "Drupal Jobs" group on 
>>>> groups.drupal.org so this doesn't get overrun. Moshe gave me 
>>>> permission to experiment with CCK and making an actual job posting 
>>>> node type, but I haven't had time to complete this. Maybe I'll
>>>> start  with a basic type, put it into moderation by default, and we
>>>> can  direct random recruiter/posting types to there.
>>>>
>>>> What do people think?
>>
>> If anything like this becomes useful, i think it should somehow be
>> synced up with or replace 'paid services'
>> (http://drupal.org/forum/51) as that seems to have become the primary
>> homepage for drupal work (AFAIK).
>>
>> I think the Drupal community should "support" a single location for
>> this type of thing.
>>
>> personally, i think the forums and any sort of CCK job postings
>> should live under the same roof, such as jobs.drupal.org.
>>
>> i think this destination might be the home for the following:
>>
>> - job postings
>> - services offered
>> - discussion/forums/groups related to paid drupal objects
>>
>> 2 cents poorer,
>>
>> harry
>>
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