Are you pyLinkedIn?

August 19th, 2007 § 9 comments

Ear­lier this week I was hav­ing a small dis­cus­sion with Doug Hell­mann — I had read his announce­ment about the PyMotw being picked up by OnLamp guys, and saw the LinkedIn link in his blog, we con­nected and started chatting.

A few months ago, Grig had made a sim­il­iar post to this — talk­ing about Python-People con­nect­ing on Linked in, and I’ve slowly been con­nect­ing to peo­ple within the com­mu­nity since then.I men­tioned to Doug that I think python peo­ple con­nect­ing is a good move — many of us don’t have “python” jobs — instead, we use Python at a decid­edly “not python” job, where Python is one skill of many44.

Net­work­ing in this fash­ion can help other python-community peo­ple find con­tacts and jobs and the like.There is a Python-Wiki LinkedIn page — and there was some dis­cus­sion around mak­ing a Python group, which is a good idea.If you’re a Pythonista/Pythoneer and want to con­nect, see my pro­file hereI’m also on Face­book thanks to James Tauber — but I’m still try­ing to fig­ure out how to use that.

Update to add some more: Ten­nessee Leeuwen­burg adds some thoughts: PyLinkedIn - his point has merit, and should be con­sid­ered when adding connections.4

  1. Although, I’ve man­aged to make python the second-most-used lan­guage where I work444

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  • http://www.dougma.com/ Doug Napoleone

    I know I am get­ting way ahead of myself here. But I will take this as more than coincidence.

    Cur­rently the LinkenIn groups are not accept­ing new groups. This is because they are re-tooling the group frame­work and are going to release an API. I know this because Van Lind­burg tried to sign up for a group for PyCon08. It should be ready in time however.

    The plan is to have LinkedIn inte­grated into the PyCon08 web site, along with many other social net­work­ing sites. One unique fea­ture of the LinkedIn inte­gra­tion is the con­nec­tion for those who are hir­ing. Not just atten­dees will be in the group, also com­pa­nies look­ing for tal­ent and those rep­re­sent­ing them will be there. At least that is the plan.

  • Lee Hinde

    You might want to give Face­book more time to sink it. I think it’s a bet­ter venue for this sort of thing because it facil­i­tates actual com­mu­ni­ca­tion between “friends” (the equiv­a­lent of a LinkedIn “con­nec­tion”). There are already Python groups on Facebook

    The pos­si­ble down­side of Face­Book is the ubiq­uity of access. LinkedIn is more busi­ness net­work focused.

  • http://www.dougma.com/ Doug Napoleone

    Just got an update through the grapevine. The release data for the new groups man­age­ment is slated for the end of Sep­tem­ber. There is no date set for the release of the API.

  • http://www.doughellmann.com/ Doug

    I like the idea of using the “group” orga­ni­za­tion instead of hav­ing every­one link directly to every­one else, so I’ll be keep­ing an eye out for them to reac­ti­vate the feature.

    I nom­i­nate Jesse to set up a “Python Devel­op­ers” group. :-)

  • http://www.jessenoller.com jesse

    Dan­git. I got vol­un­teered. I cre­ated a “python com­mu­nity” orga­ni­za­tion, but with­out groups, we’re stuck with direct-connects.

  • http://www.dancingbison.com Vasudev Ram

    Great idea. Also blogged my reac­tion to it on Doug Hellman’s post about this idea.

    Vasudev

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  • VanL

    An eas­ier way to do it might be to put “Python Com­mu­nity” under “Groups and Asso­ci­a­tions” in other. The newest release of LinkedIn allows peo­ple to invite each other based upon com­mon groups. I also think that list­ing the “Python Com­mu­nity” under groups and asso­ci­a­tions is a bet­ter rep­re­sen­ta­tion of what we are doing than a “None” posi­tion in the Community.

    On the other hand, I sup­pose Guido could put “BDFL” as his posi­tion in the community…

  • http://www.jessenoller.com jesse

    That’s exactly what I am going to do/move to — I’ve already added “Python Com­mu­nity” as a group asso­ci­a­tion. I’ll be amend­ing my post and talk­ing about it more as soon as I have a moment

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