Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonLinkedIncomputers/linkedin-2008-01-31-13-30http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/linkedin-2008-01-31-13-30I generally thought that LinkedIn was pretty useless for people like me. I have a community of like-minded associates available ... I generally thought that LinkedIn was pretty useless for people like me. I have a community of like-minded associates available via Planet Gnome and so on, so apart from collecting friends it is pretty useless.

But recently it's been becoming quite useful. For large companies it generally appears to be company policy that contact with open source projects is done via anonymous email domains, like GMail. This obviously makes it tricky to guess where someone is from when they appear on a mailing list... but LinkedIn to the rescue. Search for a name and hey presto, their CV!

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