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by stevenwei 5873 days ago
Hey this is a great idea. I know I'd rather hire from a pool of open source developers whose contributions I can take a look at ahead of time.

I think your biggest challenge is not in finding employers, but getting the community of developers registered on it. I would probably position it less as a job hunting site and more as a 'show off your projects' type site. Once you get enough developers on the site then adding a job board section becomes a no brainer.

Have you thought about integrating StackOverflow as well? E.g. not just the code they've written, but the programming advice they've given.

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We have been thinking about StackOverflow info, but we have some doubts about it. How to measure, how to compare it with the code info, etc. We prefer first work with the code, trying to "do one thing a time and do it well". Nevertheless hopefully in a not very long time we will try to start giving tools to improve CVs with non FOSS.

Regards