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

[Serguey Zefirov]

2010/10/6 Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>:
> 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.

> 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).

> * 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.