From: Rick Nooner <rick@...>
Date: 2005-05-12T05:01:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby job board, community support

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:40:06AM +0900, Dan Janowski wrote:
> Ruby is never a solitary skill, but when it is a primary skill it is 
> indicative of a world view. People that think of themselves as 
> primarily Ruby programmers really want to find work where Ruby is the 
> primary means of development. Throwing those jobs into the morass of 
> non-Ruby listings on general purpose job sites can only result in their 
> getting lost and, at minimum, losing the significance of being a Ruby 
> job.
> 
> Considering the size of the Ruby community, I think it would serve both 
> halves of the Ruby employment equation to have a job board that is Ruby 
> focused and to link to it from ruby-lang and a variety of other places.
> 
> Say what you will about other ways to increase Ruby's popularity, but 
> nothing has the effect like people being paid to use it. The only 
> downside I can think of is if there are no jobs to be found.
> 
> Are there other Ruby jobs out there? How are they advertised and 
> filled? Does anyone else think there would be a benefit in having a 
> Ruby-centric place for developers to post CVs and employers to post 
> jobs?
> 
> I would very much like to have answers to these questions. I am willing 
> to deploy a job board, but only if I am not the only one advertising 
> and only if others in this community can see (and tell me) that there 
> is a market.
> 
> I hope to hear from from you.
> 
> Dan
> 

Recently I've been able to use Ruby in the core of one of our projects but
have had several people leave for various reasons, none to do with Ruby.
I may be able to hire one or two people in the next month or so as 
replacements and would like to do so with people that have Ruby experience.

There isn't currently any good way that I know of to advertise jobs to the
Ruby community.  I think it would help Ruby grow if there were.

Years ago, I brought Python into our company and hired people that already
knew the language using a job posting on the Python site.  They had a spot
on their main web page www.python.org that linked to Python job listings as
far back as 1999, if not earlier.

BTW, if anyone is interested, we're north of Denver.

Rick

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