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

[Boris Mann]

On 18-May-06, at 10:18 PM, Gregory Heller wrote:

> 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're not going to run forum module on groups.drupal.org -- a simple  
group is going to be the easiest way to run it.

It's not going to be at jobs.drupal.org unless someone steps up and  
runs the entire thing. We've got groups.drupal.org as a second spot  
to put "stuff" where we have a little more flexibility than  
drupal.org itself.

> 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"

Heh. Semantics are fun. The idea being that it's a spot where people  
outside of the Drupal community can easily post notices/requests --  
whether these are jobs, contracts, projects, or whatever.

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

It's not done yet. It's meant to be a precursor to a range of date/ 
time selector widgets, that all store in that format. You can use the  
jstools package today.

> 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).

Yep, for sure.

Now that we've talked about this a bit, I'm not convinced the need is  
real. That is, I certainly have more than enough work to do, and  
folks are finding places to post stuff anyway. Does someone want to  
volunteer to moderate/manage a Job/Contract Postings group? That's  
probably the easiest way to get started, without necessarily any of  
the CCK stuff.

Cheers,

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