I have started a new project: ProFed.

I have started a new project: ProFed.

I’m trying to understand how far #professionalNetworking can go in the #Fediverse.

https://joinprofed.social/
https://codeberg.org/GrayDurian/ProFed

I’m interested in how you see this.

@cdonat@hostsharing.coop oooh cool! Looks promising, keep it up!

@cdonat

You should add the #ProFed tag to organise the discussion

@wessi

Great idea. I just did.

I have moved #ProFed the repository to an organization in #codeberg now. The old link is redirected to the new URL, but you might prefer to save the new link.

ProFed

ProFed - Federated professional network

Codeberg.org (codeberg.org)

@cdonat interesting. I've disabled my LinkedIn account a while ago as I was fed up with the BS that people posted there. I was wondering if there would be a way to build a federated alternative that could provide the key functionality without requiring a central authority.

@lenzgr

You pretty much described my frustration with - let's not say that name - centralized professional networks. Yet at the moment, when you need a new job, there is no way around.

I'd be very interested, which features you're looking forward. I have an idea, what we need, but maybe I'm just missing something obvious.

@cdonat how does this mirroring to github and gitlab work? Is it two-way?

@cdonat
@johannesbeers

@cdonat read through the homepage. If you'd allow for some criticism, which I hope to be constructive:
Total overfocus on talking about the protocol; the protocol is still a *means* to an *end*!
You don't even describe what entities should be on that platform (I assume it's employees, freelancers and employers, i.e., humans?) and what kind of relations between these you want to represent. You instead talk of how the server is internally structured – meaningless, because you don't …

@cdonat … describe the purpose.
"Professional social network" is way too vague! "Event-based", huh, what kinds of things will be exchanged, event-basedly?
What do people actually *do* on that network? I assume they pronounce some kind of affiliations? What kinds specifically?

You're in too deep in the CS "how" before you answered the "what" and "why".

@wessi @cdonat following #ProFed, would be a good complement to #FediHired IMO. Great idea

@zockbursche

No, it's not two way. Just what I push on Codeberg is mirrored to GitHub, and GitLab. Those mirrors are for visibility, development happens on Codeberg.

@funkylab

Thank you very much for your feedback. It is very welcome for sure. I'll take my time later today and see, how I might be able to work them into the webpage.

@rs3 @wessi

Yes, #FediHired was one of the inspirations.

@cdonat This is awesome! Any public servers yet for users to join?

@secbox No, sorry. ATM there isn't even an implementation complete enough to use for myself, let alone have others use it. Working hard on it.

I hope to soon have it good enough to use it for myself. Then the next goal is to make it usable for others in their own installations. Only then I look forward to be able to provide an instance for others to use.

If anyone volunteers to run such an instance, get in touch and I'll make sure to push features you need for that.

@cdonat I am curious to see the results of that research

@cdonat @funkylab here my take, hopefully some of this could be useful:

1. Two principal requirements:
- CVs (personal profiles separated in sections, some of which standard - summary, career and education timelines, list of evidence-based key skills) and
- jobs (postings, again with sections, again summary, and skills, responsibilities). These should be possible to disabled when the search ends. 1/4

@cdonat @funkylab Probably the summary and skills are so diverse across career paths that it's not a good idea to try to standadise them in order to match automatically (ambitious potential follow up). 2/4