Aral Balkan

There's now a new job board on OSFlash for Flash, Flex and ActionScript jobs.

Posting your jobs on there is a great way to reach an audience of over 100,000 Flash and Flex developers and support OSFlash at the same time :) (We had 110,000 unique visitors last month and that number is currently growing by about 10,000 each month.)

I announced the OSFlash Job Board last night on the OSFlash mailing list. Here's an excerpt from that email:

I'm setting up a job board on OSFlash for posting Flash, Flex and ActionScript positions. I've been trying to find a way to make OSFlash self-sustaining for a while so I can devote more time to it and this seems like a non-intrusive way of doing that. Of course you're all more than welcome to keep sending job announcements to the mailing list but please do mention the job board to your companies, etc., as it would be a great way for them to get more exposure on the web site and support OSFlash at the same time.

You can view the job board at:

http://jobs.osflash.org

To kick things off, please feel free to send me your job announcements (you can reply to this post or email me directly) and I'll put up the first ten myself without charge. (I'd do more but I added a few jobs just a few moments ago and remembered how much I hate data entry -- I don't think I could take any more manual labor!) :) Of course, if you'd like to support the effort, please feel free to put in a job announcement yourself :)

To help me out, please provide the following info:

Company, URL, Title: (of job position), Location, Category (Design, Development, Animation, or Management), Type (Full Time, Part Time, or Contract), Description (a longer textual description of the job, no HTML), Contact Information (who should they contact to apply and how; email, phone, etc.)

The job board itself is powered by Joard -- a "web 2.0" job board application by my good friend Dave, whom you may know better as builtbydave. I'm so happy that OSFlash is the first live Joard job board and I'm sure that Joard is going to be hugely successful -- great stuff, Dave!

Feel free to send me your comments, suggestions, etc. or just reply to this post.

Comments

• Thanks for the kind words, I also am happy (and very excited) that we've got the first Joard live.

  by David Stone on 2007-03-20 09:23:43

• [...] We’ve launched Joard over at OSFlash! Aral Balkan, the Founder and Coordinator of OSFlash blogs about the launch on his site, and on OSFlash. It was also announced on the OSFlash mailing list, here’s an excerpt: I’m setting up a job board on OSFlash for posting Flash, Flex and ActionScript positions. I’ve been trying to find a way to make OSFlash self-sustaining for a while so I can devote more time to it and this seems like a non-intrusive way of doing that. Of course you’re all more than welcome to keep sending job announcements to the mailing list but please do mention the job board to your companies, etc., as it would be a great way for them to get more exposure on the web site and support OSFlash at the same time. [...]

  by Joard » Blog Archive » Joard at OSFlash on 2007-03-22 15:39:04

• How is this better than others? I think that you should offer it free, with the proviso that the employer pays when they fill the position. It would be nice to be able to restrict it to an area, and also to particular packages. Maybe have a tag list. Could there be a part time work board as well. For small jobs to be done remotely or temporary positions. Freelancer type I suppose. Would be nice to have a Google map of the offers. Perhaps someone else could do it from the RSS feed.

  by ian on 2007-03-23 13:38:50

• Hi Ian, I'm sure Dave will chime in with his viewpoint but I like the simplicity of it. You have a very simple form to fill out to put up a job announcement. By area, do you mean geographically? I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "particular packages" -- could you elaborate? I'm sure Dave's going to be evolving it as time goes by but he is very aware of feature bloat and has a firm focus on keeping it simple -- which I think is a very Good Thing (tm) :) Jobs can be part time or contract (the ones up there currently all happen to be full-time.) Regarding making it free and having employers pay when they fill the position: That would be impossible to track. A Google map of the offers sounds like a great idea for a mashup :)

  by aral on 2007-03-23 13:52:11

• Thanks for your feedback Ian, and Aral, thanks for you comments. Let me run through the points quickly: * Geographically: is something in the works. * "particular packages": sorry Ian, like Aral, I don't understand what you mean * Tags: at the moment, I think categories is enough, I had considered tags but decided that they weren't important enough for version 1 * Part/Full time: as Aral said, you can do this, however, just encase it wasn't clear enough I've changed it from "Contract", to "Contract / Freelance". Hope that makes it clearer * Map integration: I like it :) I've added it to the list of ideas/feature changes. Thank you - if I do it, I'll make sure I credit you. Thanks once again for the feedback.

  by David Stone on 2007-03-23 19:42:04

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  by blog.2grafic.com » Blog Archive » Ofertas de trabajo desde OSFlash on 2007-03-25 22:45:51

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  by » Comment on Flash, Flex and ActionScript jobs at OSFlash by … on 2007-04-09 15:54:22

• Can you keep us informed of the development stage of your work? We're thinking of a area like that for our own job site (in portuguese). Hope we can share some ideas regarding this area, mainly in the portfolio area. Please check our website at http://empregos.online.pt

  by Emprego on 2008-03-25 20:20:36

• I see that Joard is now defunct...is this site still active, somewhere? I've got a Lead Interactive/Motion Designer position to post...help? :) Thanks.

  by Plexipixel on 2008-01-10 18:45:38