Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com profiles: advice requested

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Serguey Zefirov wrote:

2010/10/6 Michael Snoyman :

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Hi all,

After finally getting OpenID 2 support worked out, I've now put up the Haskellers.com website[1]. Not all features are implemented yet, but the basics are in.

Would it be possible to be able to login or consolidate two (or more) different OpenID?

For example, I would like to identify myself using GMail or Livejournal OpenID.

That's a planned feature, and the database is already designed to support this.

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For now, I collect email address (spam-protected, don't worry), website, number of years of Haskell experience, and a free-form description. I've also added a skills section, but have purposely not added many. I wanted community input on the kinds of skills. Some ideas:

* Web programming * Compiler writing * Write a monad tutorial :/

I see two main questions when it comes to selecting this list of skills:

* How granular should we get? For web programming, for instance, should we ask about Yesod, Happstack, Snap, etc?

I think that "skill cloud" would be nice so I can add my new skills (packages, programs, domain specific knowledge) as I acquire them (or write them).

Could you describe what you mean by "skill cloud" here? I was more focused right now on the skills available for selection versus the manner of displaying them.

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* Should we include non-Haskell skills. I can imagine that employers would like to know that people also have experience with Java/C#/etc, but on the other hand we might want to make this Haskell-specific.

One recommendation (from my wife actually) is to have two separate lists: a static list of Haskell-specific skills that users simply checkmark off, and then  "additional skills" that everyone makes up themselves.

If we provide some links associated with tags, it would be possible to classify skills according to their relevance to haskell community.

Once again, I'm not quite sure what you mean here; could you clarify? Michael