Thanks for this helpful feedback. It definitely doesn't look "right" yet. Work in progress. I appreciate the suggestion of more programmer-centric lingo. We could just go with an open-ended approach of letting people tag themselves with whatever info they choose. But we want to build community through more information about who's participating and gather data to prove the point that open participation can work and can attract expertise. Since this is a site about generating, not just any information but the right information, and identifying specialists on very narrow topics, it's important to get people to self-identify clearly. Hence we want to encourage without forcing people to tell about themselves, if they wish. Also - I anticipate that some people want to participate here in order to get noticed and get hired by the inventors. Hence they may want to "brag." Will keep working on this. Suggestions always welcome. Beth On Apr 9, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > On 4/7/07, Rob Cameron <cameron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I think it is too simplistic to have a single "professional role". >> People may have different roles with different affiliations. >> >> I think the personal profile is asking for too much information, >> and the wrong kind. It looks like academic CV style information. >> In particular, the "publications, grants, awards, memberships" >> info is overboard. >> >> Open source developers won't be welcomed by the focus >> on things like grants and awards; they will want to be recognized >> for their open source projects and their roles within those projects. >> Isn't there a goal to encourage participation by open source >> developers? > > Second all this. > > I might also suggest replacing 'Professional Role' with something like > 'Relevant Expertise', which might be information about a relevant > profession, but might be about other non-professional expertise. > > More generally, this is a lot of information- my eyes glazed over > about half-way through. Unless you've got a particular plan to utilize > all this information in a way which requires it to be structured, I'd > recommend asking for no more than a biography paragraph- 'this is who > I am; this is why I have relevant skills'. (You may have such a plan > in which case I retract these comments until I hear what the plan is > ;) > > Luis (Beth, I'll try to write in the other thread tomorrow.) > _______________________________________________ > p2patent-developer mailing list > p2patent-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/p2patent-developer _______________________________________________ p2patent-developer mailing list p2patent-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/p2patent-developer
