Connecting skills offered to skills needed

[danielsomerfield]

Something where potential contributor can create a profile which can be added via pull request. These profiles, if in a standard data format, could even be searchable/filterable so that if I am looking for, say, people with SQL skills, I could choose that and see a list of potential contributors.

I am not sure how the project leader would reach out to the user since I would be reticent to put public contact information. Perhaps the potential contributor just puts a username and then they can be reached via the meetup site or something. Definitely a question.

[pdxmele]

Yeah, maybe just Github username with permission to contact via Meetup too?

Thanks for starting to think about this!

[danielsomerfield]

How about this as a concept: a modifiable Jekyll data file (http://jekyllrb.com/docs/datafiles/) that can be modified by members via pull request. That data file could provide the back-end for a front-end JS app that would allow filtering for people looking for skills. It would consist of the following components:

• the data file
• a Jekyll template that would convert that data file into JSON
• a JS page using Twitter's typeahead.js (or similar) to turn that JSON into a displayable table of names based on skills.

In the future that could be applied to projects, but for now it's a quick and easy way to make skills searchable.

@pdxmele -- I'm not entirely sure I understand your suggestion of the Github username with permission. Do you mean just allow the users to list a github username? I imagine whatever you are suggestion is fine, I just think I'm missing it.