On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The original topic "building the open source portfolio" was not to > help society... it was more of for building your own resume... hardly > an altruistic goal. > If you help yourself it is helping others since you are not waiting about for handouts. I see too many people waiting for others to give a handout, Not saying that people on the streets are lazy most are working actually quite hard to survive. Improving yourself helps others. Doing the LPIC may only help you today but if you use that to teach others, then you are helping others in the long run. Doing Opensource applications to improve your resume, is a good thing and it helps others, Who cares why you do it as long as it helps. I dont do medical software I do GPS, Fingerprint detection and note Problems or advancements other Projects can do. So I am helping others elsewhere. Hacking other items like electronics, and cars, is also good as it passes on the knowledge to others, We never hack in a vacuum. And being in advertising, Marketing (User Support - User conversion) is also a plus, it may not get on your resume, but it will get you noticed by others.Being on this list may even help your resume as the employee can read your posts if they want to check your views. Without Advocates as users then the opensource area will stay a NERD thing, which it is no longer. When your in the interview if you mention all the opensource applications you use then they will notice that you are a skilled user, and have the ability to educate yourself.
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