Administration of this Group

Having a group that is purely telecommute sounds like a great idea. Perhaps it would help if the description at https://groups.drupal.org/drupal-jobs mentioned this, and maybe even the group title too.

I have found drupal-jobs useful to subscribe to as a general purpose job board that includes non-telecommute work. You mention that there are 'many other groups', which one would you recommend for folk who want to be aware of both telecommute and non-telecommute jobs?

What would you think about allowing drupal-jobs to include non-telecommute work, and running a drupal-telecommute-jobs group in parallel?

While you’re being 'hard-ass' how about requiring the mention of the country (or countries) one would be working with? I notice that many USA based job posts omit this, but it can be pretty useful to know.

I hope my observations are helpful.

Thanks for the support guys. I really want to coordinate lots of things. But the problem is that Drupal.org is still running RSS feeds rather than an API or web service. The feeds don't allow for sorting through the postings for telecommuting and scraping drupal.org is a monumental task. I tried it once before and received warnings from my web hosting provider.

I'll try to get a hold of the drupal-jobs admins and see if your suggestions can be implemented.

@Carl

I think limiting this to telecommuting only is a great idea. As it is annoying at best to have to filter through hundreds of posts related to on-site, specific location work to find the few that accept telecommuting.

> Berlin and Stockholm

If Berlin and Stockholm already have groups, then please don't?

> Remember though this group is not for job announcements

Uhm? Did I miss something? Or is this a typo? Should it read 'not for posting resumes?'

> Drupal Jobs group info

Please update the information page :)

@paulhhowells

> which one would you recommend for non-telecommute jobs?

See my reply to Carl :)

@idevit

It seems you misunderstood what Carl is desiring for his group. If not, and if I'm not misunderstanding what you're saying, then you don't mind spamming employers who specifically state they want someone to work on-site?

@everyone

> Re "I want Carl's group to be what I want, and not what Carl wants..."

Make your own group! If you want a group that accepts all jobs, without any specific requirements, then go make it.

It's not like anyone who wants specific location, on-site work can't just subscribe to the group for the physical region they want work in. If a group for a specific location does not accept job posts, then someone from that location can create a group, "{location}-jobs."

There is no need for 1,600+ people to receive (be spammed by?) some recruiters on-site job in BFE.

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While we're on the topic of modifying the group. These are a few things I think would be helpful to add to the "Create Job" form in addition to Employment type and Telecommute.

* The poster is a:
- individual
- small company
- large company
- head-hunters or recruiter.

* The poster accepts resumes/bids from:
- individual freelancers
- head-hunters or recruiter
- large corporate coder farms

* The poster accepts resumes/bids from:
- Country / Regions (e.g. US, China, ... / North America, Europe, ...)

* I/We (the poster) will not pay more than:
- Currency (Or standardize it on a single currency?)
- Rate
- Time period (e.g. Hour, Day, Week, etc.)

Wording obviously needs to be worked out, and I'm sure there are other additions that would be useful for us job seekers to be able to filter on.

Best Regards,
Sam