Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

"joe" <joe at kagenski.net> writes:
>
> 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".

Digging around, this is actually starting to look /somewhat/ common--
maybe even socially acceptable?:

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/gnu-project -- "GNU Project"
                (1001-5000 employees; 35 on LinkedIn)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/debian  -- Debian
                (501-1000 employees, ~425 on LinkedIn [the number changes
                 in seemingly random ways every time I reload the page;
                 and it's not just going up...])

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/fedora-project -- "Fedora Project"
                (1001-5000 employees; 288 on LinkedIn)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/ubuntu -- "Ubuntu"
                (not to be confused with "Canonical";
                 201-500 employees, 204 on LinkedIn)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/opensolaris-community --
        "OpenSolaris Community"
                (10k+ employees, 0 on LinkedIn!?)



Some people (like this guy, for example:
<http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=11961331>)
list "Open Source" as a `company worked at' in their `experience' section.

And someone apparently even set up a catch-all "Open Source Project"
`company':

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/-open-source-project-

... and then nobody (not even that person) associated themselves with it.


Plenty more examples of `my FOSS project is one of my jobs', both for big
projects an small ones, with smaller numbers of people claiming them
on LinkedIn:

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/openoffice.org
                (10k+ employees, 32 on LinkedIn)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/721513 -- "Joomla"
                (1 employee, 36 on LinkedIn)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/626993 -- "The Metasploit Project"
                (1 employee, 12 of which are on LinkedIn)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/chromium -- "Chromium"
                (201-500 employees, 6 on LinkedIn)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/1465656 -- "DrizzleDB Project"
                (51-200 employees, 4 on LinkedIn)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/1127003 -- "DroidMod"
                (1-10 employees, 0 on LinkedIn!?)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/412974 -- "GMapCatcher"
                (1 employee on LinkedIn)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/604915 -- "foswiki open source project"
                (11 employees on LinkedIn)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/881261 -- "Fluxbox Open Source Project"
                (1-10 employees, 2 on LinkedIn)

        http://www.linkedin.com/company/245745 -- "PHP.JS"
                (51-200 employees, 3 on LinkedIn)


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

Good point!

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