On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi ho.
Hi Dave, Well, let's not rule out that I could be a complete idiot and have totally misunderstood the process of job screening/interviewing :) Maybe it's also different from area to area. I don't know. Either way I appreciate your comments and insights into how you do these things. Many of the jobs available to me locally are mostly small electronics companies rather than true software companies. I fear that some of them won't have much of a clue about open source. In that case some document stating that I fixed x number of bugs, changed x lines of code, what kind of applications this was in, etc. might be more helpful than a link to ohloh. But this all getting a bit off topic I guess :) I just wanted to point out two things that might motivate developers (ego boosts and personal profit) and see if there are ways we can help those along. The ego boosting is already there. There can be enough hacker energy for weeks in a single "Awesome!" One way we could do more of this could be a periodical vote for the CoolestHacker or whatever. The profit part was to show potential hackers that they will profit too. If we exposed the personal benefits you get from having contributed more we might be able to attract e.g. more students. It could be in the form of an auto generated pdf summary of your contributions or something completely different. Maybe we don't even really want people with that kind of motivation around... - Thomas H.P. Andersen _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
