I agree with Greg wholeheartedly. Communicating the idea that 60hrs week is not
only normal, but expected and a requirement for success, to PhD candidates, is a
step in the wrong direction.
If I were to look at a candidate github profile, I would look at how they behave
in issues and pull requests as opposed to how frequently they push code or the
number of projects.
Sent from a mobile device. Pardon the typos/brevity. On dim., févr. 28, 2016 at
12:04 PM, Greg Wilson < [email protected]
[[email protected]] > wrote:
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
[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/
[https://blog.jcoglan.com/2013/11/15/why-github-is-not-your-cv/] .
Cheers,
Greg
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Dr Greg Wilson
Director of Instructor Training
Software Carpentry Foundation
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