Remember, if you vouch for someone, it means you believe that person
is highly-skilled in Perl -- the sort of person you could help you
debug your own Perl programs. Please don't vouch for anyone on the
basis of friendship or name recognition, but only on the basis on
their Perl skills. If you'd like to vouch for someone who hasn't
requested to join, just let me know their name and email address so I
can send them an invitation.
And brian d foy blogged:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2012/07/deven-corzine-is-revitalizing-the.html
LinkedIn is essentially a trust network that relies on connections and
recommendations for other people to get a quick read on strangers.
That's amplified with controlled groups, such as Advanced Perl Users
group on LinkedIn, which is set up so "new members will only be
approved if an existing member is willing to personally vouch for the
new member". Deven's intent is to have a group of serious Perl
programmers who we'd want to hire ourselves.
i am in a strange position regarding this group. i am actually one of
the original moderators and since early on i realized this is a bad idea
for a group. my job is reviewing candidates for perl jobs and it is not
easy or trivial. i spend hours on each one and this group requires only
a click to allow someone in. there is no way to vet all those applicants
(or even the ones in it already) by vouching and such. also there is no
way to define what an advance perl programmer is. some may be experts in
a focused area or say in perl guts. expertise can be up and down in many
ways. i would be someone called a perl expert but i know little about
security or unicode and several other areas. i recommend not trying to
join this group and even disbanding it. membership will mean nothing to
employers (or me) and i doubt it will help with hiring anyone as it is
one little bit (a true boolean bit) in a sea of information about you.
you could search it but finding hundreds of members again doesn't help
with locating the skills you want in a hire. just my view as someone who
is deeply involved with this area.
thanx,
uri
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