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Great news. Thank you very much!!

Nicola Carboni
 
> On 12 May 2017, at 12:17, Brad Coffield <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> This looks great! Well done!
> 
> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 1:13 AM Jodi Schneider <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> cbeer++
>> wickr++
>> 
>> :-D
>> 
>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Jason Bengtson <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>>> 
>>