convore.json/groups/django-community/would-there-be-a-market-for-a-tech-savvy-social-media-based-recruitment-agency-for-open-source-technologies/messages.json

[{"user_id": 3580, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1299822011.7835979, "message": "I remember there was an organization that positioned itself as a talent agency for devs a number of years back. Seemed kind of an arrogant idea at the time. Seems completely innevitable now.", "group_id": 81, "id": 319629}, {"user_id": 3354, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1299822902.111769, "message": "And perhaps after fewer beers? I'll make a note on your profile not to let you do interviews after 8:30.", "group_id": 81, "id": 319701}, {"user_id": 3580, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299872028.6051731, "user_id": 12002}], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1299822034.671011, "message": "Err. Sometimes I can spell inevitable. Those times are earlier in the evening, on average.", "group_id": 81, "id": 319633}, {"user_id": 3354, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299872066.8860769, "user_id": 12002}], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1299821931.5094571, "message": "Seeing almost vitriolic reactions to the posting of a vacancy notice by a recruiter on Convore recently, and bearing in mind the current scarcity of Python talent, I wondered whether a geek-friendly recruitment agency might make a living, and how such an agency might ethically interact with the communities it served. Just a thought. Open Space?", "group_id": 81, "id": 319624}, {"user_id": 3354, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1299822942.639487, "message": "If you can dredge up web references I'd be interested in researching their demise", "group_id": 81, "id": 319706}, {"user_id": 1506, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1299826388.0290971, "message": "Take the approach of some of the non-intrusive law firms for startups.  They go regularly to the tech events, focus on building relationships and provide a value-add other than just their services regardless of whether or not you go with them.  Basically, just be respectable service providers.", "group_id": 81, "id": 320136}, {"user_id": 1822, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1299866849.5984831, "message": "you could track down @jacobian and see what became of http://django.hiddenhires.com/", "group_id": 81, "id": 325268}, {"user_id": 5852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1299882009.9909279, "message": "Consider me tracked down. Sadly we never got it off the ground. It's still in half-finished mode.", "group_id": 81, "id": 328078}, {"user_id": 5778, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1299884939.85273, "message": "@jacobian This makes me very sad. How can we, the collective Django community, help?", "group_id": 81, "id": 328578}, {"user_id": 1822, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1299885778.8379011, "message": "I think the issue is that it takes more than code to run such a project, takes serious human time - so has to be approached as a business more than a software project", "group_id": 81, "id": 328754}, {"user_id": 1169, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1299906516.12865, "message": "see http://hirelite.com/ for an example of a dev-friendly recruitment group, though they focus on startups and chatroulette-style interviews.", "group_id": 81, "id": 330191}, {"user_id": 3354, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300521863.5105021, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1300521843.8234689, "message": "A generalization, naturally. Haven't worked with Grace, but she is certainly tracking the Python community fairly well and takes the time to come to PyCon.", "group_id": 81, "id": 387247}, {"user_id": 3354, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1300520469.348814, "message": "I'm looking at spending less time on coding in future, but I'm not sure I'm ready to start up as a recruiter just yet. But it is a pity they are so justifiably ill-thought-of in the software world.", "group_id": 81, "id": 387223}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12270, "date_created": 1300520995.906143, "message": "@holdenweb Not all of them (Grace Law comes to mind)", "group_id": 81, "id": 387234}]