Ubuntu Job Fair

[Nicholas Skaggs]

On 09/18/2014 01:30 PM, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> as a side-thread in the Community Council meeting we just had a brief
> conversation and came up with the idea to have an Ubuntu "Job Fair"
> (working title). This would be an event where teams can explain what
> kind of contributors they are looking for, explain the tasks in the
> team, etc. and welcome new contributors in the team.
>
> Who would be interesting in helping to coordinate something like this?
> Who could imagine making use of this as a team?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Have a great day,
>   Daniel
>
I'd like to pick this up again since it's the start of the cycle and I 
have several opportunities within QA I want to ensure are visible. I 
would propose we place them on http://community.ubuntu.com/; perhaps 
under the individual areas under contribute, perhaps not. So for 
instance, my QA stuff could be here: 
http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/quality/. Or we could have a 
generic page like http://community.ubuntu.com/opportunities

I would be happy to be the guinea pig on this and wonder if anyone has 
ideas on a simple way to present this information, bearing in mind 
community.ubuntu.com is a wordpress site. For instance for 
housekeeping's sake, it would be nice for postings to self-expire every 
cycle.

Once we have some opportunities up, we could implement Daniel's idea of 
a "virtual job fair" by having reps from each team with listings hangout 
on ubuntu-on-air. Give everyone 5-10 mins to talk and take an hour going 
through 'what you can do in ubuntu' on ubuntu-on-air. What do you think?


Nicholas