Im writing a cv, where does maemo fall into this?

[jamie721]

I am current writing a cv and would like to say that i am involved in the maemo comunity. but currently i am mostly a poster, n900 user ,developer and bug reporter. How can i fit this into my cv?

How much a controbuter does this make me? is it worth mentioning?

I know im a new ish user but i am realy trying to get envolved and i dont plan on going anywere.

So if any one has any pointers it would be much appricated.

By the way this is for a uk cv.

[gryedouge]

I would suggest you place it in a section regarding volunteer work or mention it briefly in skills and or specialities -

Maemo.org is not classified as a corporate/registered society, etc so saying you are a poster, doest mean a thing...but you can definitely include that you are a part-time developer and for what platform and devices. you could possibly also list or give examples of your work. You could also say that you are an active participant offering suggestions, input and assistance in the forum - show some examples if you have any.

If you subscribed to visualcv.com then you could also post screen shots of your apps.

The main thing is that you are actively developing for a platform...remember, if you are interviewed, you can use this to show how you manage projects, meet deadlines/timelines. work in conjunction with others, acceptance and dealing of criticism - both from other professionals and laymen, etc

Just some thoughts.

[chemist]

fit yourself, maemo is a distribution not worth mentioning but fit in with Qt 4.6 like you would with GTK

\section{EDV-/Computerknowledge}
\cvcomputer{OS}{Linux/GNU,MS-Windows}{Office}{MS-Office, OpenOffice}
\cvcomputer{Photo-editing}{Adobe Photoshop}{Typography}{Adobe InDesign}
\cvcomputer{Web-design}{HTML, CSS}{Scripting}{Python, PHP, Bash}
\cvcomputer{Development}{C++, Assembler, VHDL}{}{}


I would not extend to more than 4 lines if you are not a proper developer or seeking for a job as administrator. For specialities open up a new section for stuff important to the headhunter/company you wanna apply to.

(BTW, the package for LaTeX is called moderncv)

I would suggest you place it in a section regarding volunteer work or mention it briefly in skills and or specialities

as long as you are not council or something its showing of your social skills as not available

[gryedouge]

as long as you are not council or something its showing of your social skills as not available

:confused: i was referring to skills learned - and developing for a platform is a skill regardless if it is maemo...I wouldnt deem developing for, in this example, the N900 as a social skill.

Maybe i am missing your point?

[chemist]

1st Maemo is not a platform
2nd the OP didn't do much yet and thinks about putting maemo to his/her CV.

To think about putting maemo in any CV is just wrong if you were not employed for maemo community or were not member of the council! (and just hit the community, CV is not write up of your future its about the past! Putting programs developed for maemo devices in a CV is another top!)

[gryedouge]

@chemist

Ok!! now i am with you!

Fair enough, but if a person is developing apps on thier own initiative, for others, wouldnt this be worth mentioning? This to me, at least, show initiative and self improvement/development and it is an additional skill,

but, not knowing the level or depth of participation - as you have mentioned in this case - could make the cv a little misleading. Yes?

[kojacker]

Jamie, you're entering an app into the coding comp right? If you have one of those "other information" sections you could mention something like:

in my free time i enjoy designing and programming mobile phone applications. I am an active member of Nokia's open source Maemo community, and am currently developing my own project for entry in the mobile application coding competition.

It says to me that you are motivated,.competitive, and must be pretty tasty with the coding skills! It doesn't matter if your app turns out to be a "hello world" that fails to compile, they'll never see it.. ;)

[Mr. Ben]

I would stick to hard results. If you are working on a particular aspect of Maemo, state that. If you have created a package or contributed to a program state that. I don't think any employer cares whether you are "active in the community" unless its very unique/exclusive/prestigious.
Social media is only relevant if you are a "thought leader".

[HangLoose]

Maybe in the legacy systems part, together with MS-DOS.
(sorry could not resist)

[twaelti]

I would stick to hard results. If you are working on a particular aspect of Maemo, state that. If you have created a package or contributed to a program state that. I don't think any employer cares whether you are "active in the community" unless its very unique/exclusive/prestigious.
Couldn't agree more. As a manager, I care for results/achievements, not for talk.

[Texrat]

I have to agree with the comments against a casual reference. I only added maemo.org to my LinkedIn info once I was elected to the council, then listed the initiatives I have started or support. I haven't even added this to my cv and will only bring it up in certain (relevant) interview situations.

That said, this is certainly an organization of which we are all members, so that's worth listing in the proper context.

[jamie721]

Ok thank you all very much. This was everything i needed to know and more.

[pantera1989]

I don't know about you, but the only thing I could put on my CV regarding the N900 would be:

Unreliable and unproductive due to my N900 keeping me busy with whatever new I decide to do that day.