Re: [Tccc] Researcher position at (business) - posting (and WikiCFP)

I agree with the previous speakers. The CFPs that constantly flood my inbox are hardly ever of any use, but the occasional job posting can be very useful to my students. If we're banning research job postings, then let's ban the CFPs too.

On that note, I went googling for a better solution. Some of you may find this free site helpful, I know I did:

http://www.wikicfp.com/

In a few minutes, I was able to collect a personal list of CFPs for ~20 conferences that I'm interested in. One could ask for many more features than this site has to offer, but it does do the basic job quite well!

- Jakob

On Jun 2, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Sohraby, Khosrow wrote:

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> I agree with Nitin and Roch. I guess the main (and probably only reason) is economics! Students who are looking for a job should become IEEE members and subscrible to IEEE venues which advertise job postings. It does not matter if they cannot afford it!
>
> I do not agree with this approach, but I guess IEEE is also watching its bottomeline!
>
> "already provide venues (as a revenue source) for such posts (e.g.,
> advertisements in IEEE Communications and IEEE Network, and sale of their email
> lists)."
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> Khosrow
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> ________________________________
>
> From: tccc-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu on behalf of Roch Guerin
> Sent: Wed 6/2/2010 3:00 PM
> To: Joe Touch
> Cc: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu; Nitin H. Vaidya
> Subject: Re: [Tccc] Researcher position at (business) - posting
>
>
>
> Joe,
>
> The risk is that this further decreases the value of being on the TCCC
> list for many current members, and not just students, which when
> combined with the flood of not necessarily very useful CFPs may end-up
> tilting into negative territory the overall value of being a member of
> the list. Since being on the list is in practice pretty much how one
> becomes a TCCC member, this seems like a pretty effective way to reduce
> membership. I'm assuming that's the goal, right? ;-}
>
> Roch
>
> Joe Touch wrote:
>> Hi, Nitin,
>>
>> Nitin H. Vaidya wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Joe:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> The TCCC mailing list is also open to other postings of potential
>>>>> interest to its members, which include job offers, and RFIs or RFPs in
>>>>> areas of technical interest to TCCC members.
>>>>>
>>>> Note that this will be corrected very shortly; commercial posts are prohibited
>>>> by IEEE ComSoc email policy.
>>>>

Jakob Eriksson
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
phone: (312)77-JAKOB
851 S Morgan (M/C 152), Room 1120 SEO, Chicago, IL 60607-7053

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