Hey, Gerhard -- thanks for your comments. I, too, would refer to a candidate's drupal.org profile as one part of the qualifying process. But there are several problems with that:
1. You know that the drupal.org profile *exists*. That's not true for the vast majority (95%+?) of those who have to hire someone for a Drupal position.
2. Those profiles can be misleading, and don't tell the whole story. From my profile, you don't know whether I'm good at theming, or programming, or documentation. You only know that I'm fairly active on the drupal.org site. I could be an outstanding programmer who's never written public code, for example.
Hey, Gerhard -- thanks for your comments. I, too, would refer to a candidate's drupal.org profile as one part of the qualifying process. But there are several problems with that:
1. You know that the drupal.org profile *exists*. That's not true for the vast majority (95%+?) of those who have to hire someone for a Drupal position.
2. Those profiles can be misleading, and don't tell the whole story. From my profile, you don't know whether I'm good at theming, or programming, or documentation. You only know that I'm fairly active on the drupal.org site. I could be an outstanding programmer who's never written public code, for example.