[web-team] Job Policy page tightened up; more to come

[Rick Moen]

I've slowly been making our mailing list-related pages less ridiculously
verbose and redundant, and also fewer in number (see below).  Part of
that is that any data item specific to just one mailing list has been
getting migrated to that mailing list's listinfo page.

I've finally gotten around to
http://www.svlug.org/policies/job-policy.php (our "Job Policy" page),
which wasn't our worst example, but has needed work for a while.

This sentence gets snipped, being redundant to mention of same on the
Jobs list's listinfo page (http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/jobs/):

   Please note that the "jobs" mailing list is for job postings only,
   and specifically not for resumes, job-wanted postings, or discussion.

The main thing, though, is that I'm snipping this entire huge section
(below), comprising the bottom 50% of the Job Policy page.  Why?  
Because it laboriously documents two consecutive policy changes that
ended about five years ago.  Therefore, I can't believe that anyone's
confused any _more_.  So, out it can (finally) go away.

Naturally, the old text is not only here but also in the RCS history, if
someone decides I'm making a horrible mistake, etc.



---snip---

<hr noshade>
<h3>But I heard... and now... Why has the policy changed?</h3>

<dl>
<dt><b>...Job postings aren't allowed on the main "svlug" list? Now they
are?</b>
<dd>Once upon a few years ago...

<br>
As Silicon Valley got into a bit of a boom, and there were a lot of jobs
available; even the legitimate requests to post jobs were overwhelming.
We got <em>really</em> tired of wading through a lot of requests with
bad qualities; some didn't even know what Linux was.  We didn't have
enough moderators: there were a lot of jobs.  So we stopped approving
postings, and changed the policy.

<br>&nbsp;

<br>However, times have gotten hard again, so we're returning to the old
policy.  Officers must approve postings.

<br>&nbsp;

<dt><b>...you let us post jobs to the main "svlug" list if we tell the
officers??</b>
<dd>
We <i>never</i> found it acceptable for recruiters to bypass us and just
post... and such was sometimes a reason for denying further posting from
a given employer or recruiter, or even, kicking someone off the list
entirely.

<br>&nbsp;
<dt><b>... you have job announcements at your meetings? Now you
don't?</b>
<dd>
We used to do that, before the speaker presented, but there were so many
at one point that the main presentation only got about half his expected
time slot.  That's not cool.  So now we have the jobs corner.   Don't be
afraid to say that you are hiring, or job-seeking, during the general
hubbub after meetings.  You may find just what you need.

<br>&nbsp;<br>
<dt><b>Under what conditions would you change the policy again?</b>
<dd>
<br>
Our members themselves are an important part of this.  If you are an
SVLUG member and you disagree with our policy, <em>PLEASE</em> tell us.
We are a very small group of officers, and you're a pretty big group.

<br>&nbsp;
</dl>

---snip---

"Other places to post jobs ads" is actually something else that I've
been gradually migrating to the listinfo page
(http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/jobs/):  I'll probably in the
near future further shorten http://www.svlug.org/policies/job-policy.php
by merging the guts of Job Policy's "You can use other resources related
to job hunting and hiring" section to the listinfo page, too.

At that point, _probably_ the Job Policy page will end up being
vestigial and can be done away with entirely.  (Yay!)

I've already eliminated the former page "www.svlug.org/maillists/" 
(see: http://web.archive.org/web/20050226043153/www.svlug.org/maillists/)
and the former links to it, so we're down to just...

http://www.svlug.org/policies/list-policy.php
http://www.svlug.org/policies/job-policy.php
http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/  (fixed format; automatic)
..and the individual lists' listinfo pages, e.g.
     http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/jobs
     http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug