Open source job boards

I'm not at a point right now where I can do freelance work in open-source very effectively, but here are two places to look when the time comes:

• Fossjobs.net
• Fr.lolix.org (why yes, it does help to be multilingual)

I should check for German-language ones, too.

Also: Topcoder.  I'd vaguely heard of it.

The state of job boards

The last time I looked at Elance was 2008, and there were reasonable amounts of jobs by people who seemed to know what they were doing.  Now I'm looking there and it's all people who have a fantastic idea that they want implemented for five bucks.  (Or so it seems.)

And none of it seems well-specified.

Maybe that particular strategy is dead.

Bountify

Neat little programming-snippet bounty site.  Looks like some fun stuff there!  If it catches on, it'll be interesting to see how the data trends.  Tagged as a "job source" - but it isn't really that.  The bounties are more like prizes than pay.

HNN post on freelance jobbing

Here. Extract those links as grist for the mill.

Grist for the mill

So of course you know what I'd like to do is to analyze streams of jobs appearing on the various freelancer sites, and be able to post with a finished product within minutes of the job being posted. I know, I know, but this is the sort of pipe dream that drives genius of my level. So when I run across sources for said job streams, I feel the need to bookmark them. And now, blog them, especially when I need to close my browser and dump links.

Twitter! Specifically, "I need software that".

Scriptlance "Data mining" tag. You can search by content as well. Whether an RSS feed is available I don't yet know, but a topic-specific set of aggregators would be the thing to start with, eh?

Freelancer.com "scraping" search term.

Anyway, it would be cool at least to start on the aggregator and NLP end of this, just to see how far I'd get before running into the really-not-worth-it wall.