Re: Merging the FSF jobs page and GNU Herds

[Davi Leal]

Hi Jonas,

> > Will be the FSF grant "GNU Business Network", "Free Software
> > Contributor", "FS Ethical Business" or whatever certifications?. It
> > could make the site management easier.
>
> I'm not sure if it's feasible for us to go through the list of companies
> regularly to give them those flags. For the "GNU Business Network", it
> might happen like this;
>
>  1. The company registers with GNU Herds and checks the "GNU Business
>     Network" box.
>  2. A notice is sent to a GNU Business Network authoritative person who
>     checks wether the company is indeed a member of the network or not.
>  3. Two links are given in that notice; if the authoritative person
>     clicks one of them, then the company record is updated in the GNU
>     Herds database and their affiliation with the GNU Business Network
>     becomes visible; if the person clicks the other link, then the
>     record is updated to reflect that the company is not in the GBN.

It is OK. Cool!.

We will develop such mechanism after the GBN is ready, or as soon as
we finish others tasks. It is very easy.

> Of course, this can't be put into production before we have a stable
> working GNU Business Network, and we might want to change the logic of
> this depending on how the GBN will become implemented, but it might give
> you an idea of how something like this *could* be done.

To get the GBN certification out of production we just remove its
register from the LC_Certifications table. We have not to modify any
source code line.

Let us know any change of the logic.

-- Davi