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 (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/