I've grown disillusioned with the idea of using GitHub as a resume - I
think that expecting people to spend 20 hr/week *on top of* their 40
hr/week job is doing harm to people's mental health, their family lives,
and any hope we have of fixing computing's diversity problem. Ashe
Dryden's article
http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-and-the-oss-community
sums it up better than I could, and I like this quote:
when you use GitHub for hiring you’re taking a tool that people use as
a collaboration space and backup service, and using it for an
unintended purpose: judging whether people are any good or not.
from James Coglan's follow-up at
https://blog.jcoglan.com/2013/11/15/why-github-is-not-your-cv/.
Cheers,
Greg
--
Dr Greg Wilson
Director of Instructor Training
Software Carpentry Foundation
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