Re: [Swig-devel] LinkedIn profile for SWIG developers

[Richard B. <ri...@ta...>]

2009/10/20 William S Fulton <ws...@fu...>:
> I have created a LinkedIn profile for SWIG so that anyone who has done
> development work on SWIG can associate themselves with the project.
> There are also many other FOSS projects listed as 'companies'. View the
> profile here: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/swig.

I've been able to view the profile, but I have no idea how to add
myself to the profile.  There's no obvious button that I can see.  I
can easily add a new company, it seems, but not join an existing one.
(There's probably an obvious button - I'm really bad at navigating web
interfaces.)

> I have found it really hard to track down past SWIG developers for the
> pending license changes, so for the future, it would be good to keep
> networking using LinkedIn, which seems to be the standard professional
> networking site these days.

Possibly true right now, and it's worth having a SWIG profile there,
but I have no confidence whether LinkedIn will still be working in 5
years time (it's a closed access dataset, under control of a
commercial organisation, after all), so I wouldn't think it's the best
place to try keeping a master record of contact details for people
who've contributed to SWIG.

I'd think this mailing list would be a better place for networking
with reasonably active / interested developers (though perhaps the
mailing list administrators should be backing up the subscriber lists
off-sourceforge, for true paranoid future-proofing) .  Obviously email
addresses go out-of-date, but so do linked-in accounts. None of us are
going to be around indefinitely.

-- 
Richard