Re: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

[joe]

I would list any FOSS project that you are a major contributor at as a job/project on it's own.   You can list multiple jobs that are "active" at the same time.  Pick a title that makes sense.  Set start and end dates appropriately as the default is too place "current" first in the list.

Based on your presentation at the last meeting, FoxtrotGPS certainly qualifies (IMO).  I see "owner", project manager, developer, release manager and much more as roles in that "job".

Also, add FOSS and any related skill in the SKILLS section.  L* offers a bunch of skills items but you can add your own.

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If you do not have a presence on Linkedin, you should.  Recruiters use it as their first tool in their search for new staff.  I am seeing this in my search for a position and have had this confirmed by company recruiters.  Make sure your entries reflect your resume.

joe



>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com>
>  To: GNHLUG General Discussion <gnhlug-discuss at gnhlug.org>
>  Subject: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?
>  Sent: 21 Feb '13 20:43
>  
>  So, I use LinkedIn. And my resume and professional portolio is the FOSS
>  projects that I've worked on and the roles that I've held in those
>  projects (we talked a bit about this `FOSS projects as an important part
>  of your professional portfolio thing' at the last Nashua LUG meeting at
>  MakeIt Labs back at the beginning of the month; FoxtrotGPS is one such
>  project for me, but there are others too).
>  
>  The question is: how do I tell that to LinkedIn?
>  
>      * When listing `experience', how should I list FOSS projects?
>        LinkedIn seems to believe that `experience' can come only
>        from time-periods spent working at `companies' where I
>        have/had a `title'. Is proper form here to just tell LinkedIn
>        that, e.g., I've spent 3 years working for the FoxtrotGPS
>        company and it's a 20- to 50-person company (or whatever
>        the number `bzr stats' or the project page on ohloh.net says)?
>        It's tempting to follow Chris Webber's lead and just say
>        "I work for the Internet" <http://identi.ca/notice/99365775>....
>  
>      * More confusing: when I add a contact, how should I list
>        the connection?
>  
>        - `colleague' at the FoxtrotGPS company (and `yes, add
>          "FoxtrotGPS" as a new company')?
>  
>        - `other'? (and why, when I select `other', does it ask me
>          what the other person's e-mail address is rather than
>          asking me to define what `other' actually means???)
>  
>        - `friend'? WTF does that mean (and why *doesn't* it ask me
>          for the other person's e-mail address if I say that
>          he's my `friend' rather than an `other')?
>  
>        - `I don't know this person [AFK/IRL?]' (and, again,
>          why doesn't it ask me the same thing for this as if
>          I said `other')?
>  
>  
>  My nerdy engineering-brain just wants to grab LinkedIn by the shoulders
>  and yell, "your ontology does not match reality!". That's what my brain
>  wants..., but my *hands* cannot find LinkedIn's shoulders.
>  
>  Surely someone here has figured this out. What do you do?
>  
>  --
>  "Don't be afraid to ask (f.((x.xx) (r.f(rr))))."
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