Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

"Shawn O'Shea" <shawn at eth0.net> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
> <rozzin at geekspace.com>wrote:
> >
> > The question is: how do I tell that to LinkedIn?
> >
> >
> > I don't use LinkedIn a lot, but I've been somewhat infrequently updating
> it over the last year. When I received my CISSP certification, I wanted to
> add that to my profile. I found there were sections for your profile you
> can add, and Certification was one.
>
> I just logged in, and I see a section you can add called "Projects".
> Although not directly OSS project geared, it might fit better than some of
> the other options.
[...]
> It at least sounds better in my head than listing the OSS work as an
> employer. (In a very brief search I found at least one OSS project
> maintainer that uses this category this way).

Just in terms of the base terminology (yes, my projects are `projects',
not `companies'), I'd probably agree. But it looks like their ontology
has `projects' basically being /subordinate to/ `companies': projects
can be attached to companies, but not vice versa; can't have a
single project span multiple companies; can't _know people by way of
a project_.

That last one's really what I'm trying to get at, actually. There are a
bunch of people who I know only because of FoxtrotGPS. I got one of
LinkedIn's automated `do you know this person?' prompts, the other day,
for someone whose introduction I'd made only because of both of our work
on VisualIDs. Funnily enough--we do actually have one real `company' in
common: he had studied at MIT in the past, and I worked for MIT
in the future, but neither of us were there when we did our parts
on the project and there was actually no /shared/ association with
that institution.

Bruce Perens had a great quip, a few years back
<http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1559052&cid=31231712>:

    "... But it's interesting, when I visit these companies, that
     I already know their hottest programmers - through Open Source."

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