[j_baker]

I personally put a link to my github account on my resume. One thing to bear in mind if you take this approach is that as long as you have a couple of good projects, quantity is more important than quality especially if you're new. It shows that you like what you do, and if nothing else shows that you've at least gotten some of your crappy code out of the way.

[technomancy]

Yeah, it would be a really hard sell for me to hire someone without a Github profile these days. I'm sure there are field where this may not be feasible, but it's a great and easy differentiator for us.

You get a few false negatives, but virtually no false positives.

[tomjen3]

I think you underestimate the false negatives you get with that idea. I can't be the only one who would rather do consulting or hacking at something that might at some point become a startup than doing open source.

And to top it of, I hate github (their functionality should be build into the git client, I shouldn't have to check a web page to see if anybody has ideas to improve my code).

[heresy]

It's tricky, I love open source and use it a lot.

But likewise, after work I'm usually doing some work on my freelancing projects, half of which the client has rights to the source code for, but is not open source.

Getting two "salaries" every month is useful for quickly building up equity.

[technomancy]

> I think you underestimate the false negatives you get with that idea.

Maybe so, but false negatives are not nearly as disastrous as false positives.

If someone hates github, I'd be fine looking at bitbucket, gitorious, etc too. =)