[pydotorg-www] Final draft of redesign RFP

[Chris Withers]

On 10/05/2012 13:10, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
>> I'm largely sure that I think the job board should split off into its
>> own microsite at jobs.python.org. How do we go about making that happen?
>
> I think I'm -1 on making a subsite. I like URL stability, so even if
> the content maintenance of the jobs site works independent from the
> rest, it should continue to be provided at its current URL.

I've always found it surprising that jobs.python.org doesn't exist.
I'd imagine about three 301 redirects would take care of existing urls...

> I'd personally wait and see what the outcome of the redesign is. Perhaps
> you might even like the new site. But if not, it should be easy enough
> to take the jobs list out of the management even after the fact.

Indeed, the job board has been something I've been thinking about a lot 
for the last couple of years. I even started a project to handle it:

https://github.com/cjw296/jobs.python.org

...before my working situation changed and doing the moderation offline 
turned out to be a requirement.

> That said, I think any contractor would have to know about the needs of
> this particular application. It might be useful to ask bidders for a
> separate quote on the job board, and then decide that the risk of wasting
> that money (in case we don't use the new system for the jobs) is too high.

I think it'd make the RFP simpler and cheaper to split it off before.
I'm offering to do that work ;-)

Chris

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