Suggestion: vouch for your volunteers

2014-11-05 Thread Patrik Bubák
Maybe this has been proposed and maybe it's blunt obvious, still I need to ask, would it be possible to make this official for those who contribute so they can publish their contribution in their CV and boost their chances of landing a job and in case a future employer would want to dig up

Re: Suggestion: vouch for your volunteers

2014-11-05 Thread Efstathios Iosifidis
2014-11-05 16:19 GMT+02:00 Patrik Bubák bub...@privacyrequired.com: Maybe this has been proposed and maybe it's blunt obvious, still I need to ask, would it be possible to make this official for those who contribute so they can publish their contribution in their CV and boost their chances of

Re: Suggestion: vouch for your volunteers

2014-11-05 Thread Patrik Bubák
It's not like I intend to do it right away, since my contribution currently isn't a big thing (just a few translations), but the original intent is *IF* a potential employer would want to do a background check on a user (in my country this is common) it'd be nice to have someone who could back

Re: Suggestion: vouch for your volunteers

2014-11-05 Thread Alfredo Hernández
Oh, yeah. Generally we use the wiki page for vouching purposes in the form of testimonials (see my page, for instance: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/aldomann or Ali's one: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad#Testimonials). I believe this is pretty standard, and given the nature of open source projects the

Re: Suggestion: vouch for your volunteers

2014-11-05 Thread Jackson Doak
As well as wiki page testimonials, ubuntu members receive a certificate which can be added to a CV. On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Alfredo Hernández aldomann.desi...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, yeah. Generally we use the wiki page for vouching purposes in the form of testimonials (see my page, for