[SwellJoe]

I only hire people with work I can see in Open Source projects.

It's just not worth my time to try to sort through the people who claim skills that don't actually have them, particularly for contract work that is short-term. I might be willing to go through a long interview process for a full-time employee that I expect to invest significant time and money in, but for contracts? It's just not worth my time. I can look at someone's github, SF.net, CPAN modules, Drupal modules, etc. and know within minutes if they're worth working with. Why would I bother with someone that doesn't have anything to show?