From: William S F. <ws...@fu...> - 2009-10-20 18:22:00
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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 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. William |
From: Richard B. <ri...@ta...> - 2009-10-21 00:59:17
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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 Obviously email addresses go out-of-date, but so do linked-in accounts.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 |
From: William S F. <ws...@fu...> - 2009-10-27 07:12:22
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Richard Boulton wrote: > 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.) > When you create a possition (job) in your own profile, you have to enter a 'company', whereupon you can choose SWIG. >> 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. > Agreed, though in practice, no 'master record' is ever going to be maintained or kept up to date. I'm just providing an additional method to keep in contact as the normal email/mailing list approach doesn't work. Also, having contributed to SWIG should have benefits such as being associated as a SWIG developer, which should enhance a developer's professional career and for those that use LinkedIn, that possibility is now there. > 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. > Emails are sometimes updated in the README file. LinkedIn can just be one more tool for keeping in touch, it is a useful one as users normally keep their details up to date once interest in SWIG has waned. Saying that, the same should go for the SourceForge account, but in practice, not everyone updates their contact details in SourceForge. William |