Goal
The goal is to identify and evaluate skill resources and skill gaps within the Steem ecosystem.
Purpose
It is designed to facilitate skill tracking for major ecosystem-improvement projects such as the Steem Alliance and similar.
Current State
The sheet currently is based on the self-identification of skills by @steemalliance (Steem Alliance) nominees based on their posted profiles.
Usage Examples
Example of Primary Use: Alice is developing a community governance documentation portal and asks Bob to create a database for it.
Example of Secondary Use: Alice finds that the dev portal requires a recipe for account recovery and asks Bob to help her test it.
Example of Tertiary Use: If Alice needs a developer for a project she can refer to the spreadsheet and connect with Bob.
Listed users are skilled individuals with:
A - Desire to contribute pro bono*
B - Identifiable skills to continue
Next steps:
1 - Finish identifying competencies
2 - Fill out profiles on all users who have A + B
*Limited pro bono (free) contribution to benefit the ecosystem as a whole. It does not constitute a commitment to provide valuable services for free.
Self-Identification and Voluntarism
The purpose of this is to honestly list skills. You self-identify your skills. That being said, the sheet loses purpose if individuals are embellishing their skills. Anyone trying to add skills for themselves they blatantly do not possess will be publicly struck out from the list as that becomes a question of their integrity.
Skills
- Formative education → ie. Comp Sci masters degree, Certified Professional Accounting designation
- Years of experience on self-directed projects → ie. Github repo with verifiable quality commits over the years
- Professional range of work experience → ie. 10 years in senior management roles at Company XYZ
Not a skill:
- Personal belief that you are great at something
- Being part of a project or community that focuses on supporting a skill → ie. the creator of a technical writing project is not a professional technical writer by default
- Free online courses → ie. taking a Coursera class in strategic management does not make you a strategic manager
- Self-education via Wikipedia and similar
After the sheet is filled out to some respectable level we'll code it into the chain and pull into a website.
Feedback
This is a Continuous Improvement project.
Document
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Af7JLrsDA7vBtrwR1NB4z4eKRYlr8RtJsOQ0dSexd1w/edit#gid=0
It is read-only to prevent users from editing each other's skills.
Next Steps
- Identify more skills/competencies
- Fill out sheet
Next Steps Update
01-24-19 - additional skills added to sheet
Read Me
This post is a Read Me document and will be updated as necessary.
Contribute
Volunteer and self-identify your skills in comments or suggest a process improvement.
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Ha ha! I work in a field where it is hard to fake your credentials, so I'm not sure if people actually do this sort of thing! Or if it is a dry sense of humour, well... At least I found it hilarious! It really reminded me of this movie... Mystery men.
... But I do really believe I can fly!
That was a good movie.
I love the purpose reason
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