[rust-dev] Rust jobs board?

[Simon Flynn]

Greeting Rustaceans,

Although it is still early days (pre 1.0), would there be any interest in a
jobs board specifically for the Rust community?

I am one of the founders of Finance Jobs (https://www.financejobs.co) and
although it's not written in Rust, as I have been dabbling a bit here and
there, I can see it is going to have a great future. As such, I was thinking of
taking our code and using it to create a Rust jobs board
(http://www.rustlangjobs.com) and perhaps one day port it to Rust and then blog
about the process :)

It would be for-profit, but I am wanting to give back to the Rust community.
After speaking to my other founder, we've agreed to give a percentage of
any profits made towards the development of Rust. I'm not sure of any details
yet, but was thinking along the lines of the Perl Foundation grants
(http://www.perlfoundation.org/grant_benefits).

Comments would be appreciated.

Best,
Simon

[Aaron Turon]

Simon,

First, sorry for the delayed response -- I'd missed this email initially.

This is a great development! It is indeed early days, but establishing
something like this as we approach 1.0 could be a great boon for the
Rust community, and we've been hearing rumblings of Rust job openings
here and there already.

It's also wonderful that you want to give back to the Rust community,
and we should discuss possible avenues for doing so. One possibility
would be to fund contract work within the Rust ecosystem using the job
board itself. Another possibility would be going through some kind of
existing bounty system, like https://www.bountysource.com/ for example.
Growing the ecosystem is going to be a crucial step as we put out the
1.0 release, and this kind of contribution could be really helpful.

Anyway, those are just some ideas. Please feel free to reach out to
myself or others on the Rust team and let us know how we can help!

Aaron

Post by Simon Flynn
Greeting Rustaceans,
Although it is still early days (pre 1.0), would there be any interest in a
jobs board specifically for the Rust community?
I am one of the founders of Finance Jobs (https://www.financejobs.co) and
although it's not written in Rust, as I have been dabbling a bit here and
there, I can see it is going to have a great future. As such, I was thinking of
taking our code and using it to create a Rust jobs board
(http://www.rustlangjobs.com) and perhaps one day port it to Rust and then blog
about the process :)
It would be for-profit, but I am wanting to give back to the Rust community.
After speaking to my other founder, we've agreed to give a percentage of
any profits made towards the development of Rust. I'm not sure of any details
yet, but was thinking along the lines of the Perl Foundation grants
(http://www.perlfoundation.org/grant_benefits).
Comments would be appreciated.
Best,
Simon

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[Simon Flynn]

Hi Aaron,

Post by Aaron Turon
First, sorry for the delayed response -- I'd missed this email initially.

No need to apologise. We're just glad that somebody positively responded as we
were worried that we may have crossed the line by offering a commercial service
on the list and then the thread went silent.

Post by Aaron Turon
This is a great development! It is indeed early days, but
establishing something like this as we approach 1.0 could be a great
boon for the Rust community, and we've been hearing rumblings of
Rust job openings here and there already.

We have limited time at the moment, but getting a Rust jobs board up and
running is definately something I will be pushing to get out the door.

Post by Aaron Turon
It's also wonderful that you want to give back to the Rust
community, and we should discuss possible avenues for doing so. One
possibility would be to fund contract work within the Rust ecosystem
using the job board itself. Another possibility would be going
through some kind of existing bounty system, like
https://www.bountysource.com/ for example. Growing the ecosystem is
going to be a crucial step as we put out the 1.0 release, and this
kind of contribution could be really helpful.

Thanks for those. I really like the idea of the bounty system. Perhaps when
each time the shared profits from the site net $X, it is allocated to the next
most popular/important/needed bounty (although I'm not sure how this would be
voted on).

Post by Aaron Turon
Anyway, those are just some ideas. Please feel free to reach out to
myself or others on the Rust team and let us know how we can help!

I do have a question about the logo. I tried to look for any detail regarding
the copyright of the Rust logo but couldn't find anything. As anything without
explicit information is copyrighted by default, I'm assuming we can't use it.
Does anyone know who we could ask for permission to use the logo on our site?

Best,
Simon

[Steve Klabnik]

There's an open issue on the repo "officially provide the Rust logo"

Mozilla legal has been slow.

[Simon Flynn]

Hi Steve,

Post by Steve Klabnik
There's an open issue on the repo "officially provide the Rust logo"

Thanks for the pointer. Down the bottom Brian says:

"OK, I've got the scoop. TL;DR it's CC-BY."

That's good news. In any case when the site eventually goes leve, we would
welcome any and all feedback. Especially regarding any legal implications.

Best,
Simon