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Thank you very much! This is terrific! Best regards, *Jason Bengtson* *http://www.jasonbengtson.com/ <http://www.jasonbengtson.com/>* On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Cynthia Ng <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > All I can do is second that. Thank you _so_ very much for your (read > everyone who contributed) hard work on this! > > -Arty > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Bess Sadler > Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 9:44 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs.code4lib.org relaunched > > Hooray!! This board is such a great service to the community. Thank you, > Chris. > > Bess > > > On May 11, 2017, at 11:02 AM, Chris Beer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Yesterday (with help from Ryan Wick) I relaunched a brand new, > completely rewritten https://jobs.code4lib.org <https://jobs.code4lib.org/> > with the full job posting history from shortimer and job postings to this > list. As before, messages to CODE4LIB-L are aggregated and presented in the > application (after a quick moderator review). > > > > In this first iteration, I tried to capture the essential features of > the application, which means there’s plenty of opportunity for > improvements. The code is available at https://github.com/code4lib/ > job_board <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board>, and I’d like to call > out a couple tickets that may be good starting places for new contributors: > > > > - Include the job title and employer in (https://github.com/code4lib/ > job_board/issues/28 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/28>) > > - Send new job notifications to the code4lib slack #jobs channel ( > https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/30 < > https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/30>) > > > > And some operations tasks: > > - Add application monitoring (https://github.com/code4lib/ > job_board/issues/25 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/25>) > > - Implement continuous deployment (https://github.com/code4lib/ > job_board/issues/32 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/32>) > > > > There are also some more data-driven research tasks: > > > > - Automated tag extraction (https://github.com/code4lib/ > job_board/issues/8 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/8>) > > - Job location geocoding and display (https://github.com/code4lib/ > job_board/issues/4 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/4>) > > - Better job searching tools (https://github.com/code4lib/ > job_board/issues/7 <https://github.com/code4lib/job_board/issues/7>) > > > > If you have questions, comments, or want to get involved, I’d strongly > encourage discussion using github issues on the project, and I’m cbeer in > the code4lib IRC + slack channels. > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > > > >> On Oct 18, 2016, at 1:51 PM, Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> If you have used jobs.code4lib.org in the past you may have noticed > that job posting has not really been functional for the past few weeks. The > root cause of this was the eventual shutdown of Google's Freebase API, > which the application relied on heavily for tagging employers, locations > and subjects. You can read more about it in this issue ticket if you are > interested: > >> > >> https://github.com/code4lib/shortimer/issues/38 > >> > >> Unfortunately I don't have the bandwidth to refactor the code at this > point. Before the shutdown of the Freebase API I was actually finding it > difficult to moderate the many new jobs that would show up via RSS. In > theory this could've been done by any logged in user, but I was often the > only person doing it. I'm not complaining--I was the one who set it up to > to work this way. I also have been paying $20/month to host it, which isn't > a lot -- but hey, it adds up. > >> > >> So .... this is all to say, on November 1st I am planning on creating a > static version of the site, and dumping the data as JSON, which I will put > up on Internet Archive for anyone else wanting to create a similar service. > The code will continue to live up at GitHub [1]. > >> > >> I apologize if this rubs anyone the wrong way, but it is super to see > people still posting jobs to the email list as they always have. > Applications age like fish, data ages wine -- or so they say... > >> > >> //Ed > >> > >> [1] https://github.com/code4lib/shortimer >