Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

Joshua Judson Rosen rozzin at geekspace.com
Fri Feb 22 14:57:42 EST 2013


David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> writes:
>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:43:22 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I don't use LinkedIn and I'm surprised they don't have something like a
> "community service" section. How are you supposed to list other
> charitable or other non-business activities that could be relevant? Girl
> Scout Den Mother, church deacon, library fundraising committee chair,
> community organizing, etc? Some of those have motherships you could list
> but none is really a "company".

They do have a separate `volunteering & causes' list (which may be new
since the last time I looked at this stuff); I don't see that
things listed there are usable in establishing connections though.
Apparently `volunteering & causes' are things that you do *by yourself*,
not *with other people*. Really, what that's probably supposed to
function as `extra non-professional stuff that I've done that shows
that I'm an upstanding citizen' that some people put on their resumes.

Possibly it's there for the type of people who are in the habit of
putting religious symbols in the corner of their cover-letters.

Also possibly: it's there because convicted-but-reformed felons
who are trying to re-establish themselves as productive, reliable
members of society... are part of LinkedIn's userbase these days
(if that's the case, I'd say it's probably good in both directions).

But I'm pretty sure that it's not the field I'm looking for, in either
case.

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