New Job Posting List

From now on, all jobs, whether full time or contract work should be posted to Refresh Austin Jobs. Once you’ve joined that group, you can send opportunities to refresh-austin-jobs AT googlegroups DOT com.

Job Posting Guidelines

Anyone is allowed to join the new group and post opportunities (including recruiters). The first message from each member will be moderated, following our practice here on the main list, to ensure we maintain a high level of quality.

All job posts must meet these requirements:

The job opportunity must be in the Austin/Central Texas area. Telecommuting opportunities are acceptable as well, as long as the applicant may work from Austin.
The opportunity must be for a Web-related role (designer, developer, writer etc.), general positions such as office manager, secretary or chimney sweep should be posted elsewhere.
The post should include the real name of the company or individual hiring. It is understood that sometimes projects have not been announced yet, but a contact name should at least be included.
Do not post the same position day after day. Give it time before re-posting.

Seeing the Jobs

We’ll send a single daily digest to the main Refresh Austin list containing all job postings added that day, so it will be easy for members to see available jobs if they are interested or to filter the message if they aren’t. If you aren’t posting jobs, you don’t have to join the new list. We will also add the job posts to the Refresh Austin site as they come in, or you can choose to join the group to receive posts directly.

Following-Up on an Opportunity

Please contact the job poster off-list (both lists).

We hope this new system will encourage the sharing of jobs without overloading everyone’s inbox.

This is an experiment, so we would love to hear your feedback. We’ll tweak, modify or tear down as needed to ensure we get this right.

Tuesdays also happen to have happy hour all day, half-priced appetizers, and $1 off select drafts, well drinks, and house wine. Show up early and grab some food and drink, and then head upstairs to the meeting. Afterwards, you can continue the conversation over a game of pool, darts, or shuffleboard.

Street parking downtown is free after 5:30, and there are two $5 parking garages within a one-block walking distance — one on 7th between Brazos and San Jacinto, and one on Brazos just north of 7th.

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You’ve been asking — Is LaunchPad Coworking real? Where is it located? How can I find it? When can I start coworking in Austin already?

We are more than a little happy to announce that after months of searching and planning, we have inked a lease, and it’s in the perfect location.

Ladies and gentlemen, telecommuters and mobile workers, creatives and visionaries of all disciplines … Welcome to LaunchPad Coworking. One small step for knowledge workers, one giant leap for coworking in Austin.

LaunchPad Coworking will open this summer in Brazos Place, a fabulous multiuse building at 800 Brazos Street. More specifically: 30.27 longitude, –97.74 latitude. Put that in your geodata pipe and smoke it.

Why are we so happy with these digs?

• We’re in the heart of downtown Austin.
• We have 4200 square feet of space to play with. Plus a spacious mixed-use lobby.
• Murray Legge of LZT Architects is designing the space.
• We have great neighbors: Baby Greens and Anthony Nak.
• We’re right across from a UPS store.
• The Omni is within spitting distance. The Paramount Theater is around the corner.
• There’s tons of public parking, metered parking, and Brazos Place has valet parking.
• And of course: bike racks.
• We’re bringing fiber-optic connectivity right to the desk! Talk about fast and secure.

We hope our new lease will become your new lease on a non-isolating work life. Can’t wait to work with you.

About LaunchPad Coworking
LaunchPad Coworking is a unique combination of workspace and cafe where mobile workers work together, collaboratively or privately, with meeting rooms and individual desks available by the hour, ergonomic chairs, ample power outlets, and secure fiberoptic internet access. The coworking model encourages the free flow of projects and ideas, with the belief that when we work together, we work smarter.

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By offering the Greater Austin Web Developer of the Year (“GAWDY”) award, Syncopated seeks to increase awareness of and compliance with industrial standards while promoting friendly competition among local Web site developers.

This competition will greatly also benefit potential clients by honoring those developers who maximize the reach of Web-based advertising by creating clean markup, which today comprise less than 10% of commercial developers.

The first annual award is tentatively scheduled to be given in late June 2008, pending the nomination of sufficient qualified candidates.

For full rules and to make nominations, see http://www.oddgods.com/webawards.

Along with the visual changes, there are many fresh features to help us move forward as we enter our third year. The site serves as the hub of our activities, unifying the different pieces of Refresh Austin. It’s easier than ever to join in, whether it’s by posting a new entry on this site, jumping into a discussion, adding photos to the Flickr group or setting up an event on Upcoming. Really busy, but want to stay up to date? Subscribe to the feed!

Participation

All members are encouraged to contribute to the site directly, extending our discussions beyond our meetings and mailing lists. Whether you want to post a follow-up to a meeting discussion, spread the word about a useful tool or application, post a job opportunity or encourage folks to meet you for a beer – the site is open to you.

How to Contribute

First, you need to register as a new member of the site. All new members start out as Contributors, which means that you can create a new post and edit any posts you’ve previously written, but the posts have to be approved before they are published. If you have come to a meeting, or have been active on the list you will be promoted to an Author, allowing you to publish without waiting for a review. We’ll try to stay on top of registrations, but feel free to drop us a line if you need to publish something quickly and are waiting on the account change!

This is a new set up for us, but we hope that it will allow everyone in the group to participate while holding the spammers at bay.

A Note About Posting Job Opportunities

Refresh Austin is a group for Web Professionals as such we encourage our members to share job openings. In order to post a job opening, we ask that you have participated in the group, either by attending a meeting or at the very least by introducing yourself on the mailing list.

Recruiters: This is not a venue for you to post jobs – this site and the mailing list are for our members.

Questions, Suggestions or General Feedback

This is a fresh start, as such we want to hear what you think! You can add a comment below, send your thoughts via the contact page or respond on the mailing list – we’ll do our best to add them to the mix!