Add in LinkedIn to the user profile, so that, we can help with people's careers easily.

[alterisian]

Envisage the work would involve:

• Migration to add in a linked_in field to the user_profile
• Validation on the UserProfile model to check the format of the linked_in field
  -- check that it is a url
  -- check that it contains linkedin
• Tests to check that a non LinkedIn url cannot be submitted.

It feels like, even in Berlin, that LinkedIn is becoming much more relevant again, and actively developed. Most conversations with new tech related contacts, for me, now involve adding each other on LinkedIn. Perhaps it is time to add in a specific field for a user's LinkedIn profile.

#improvement #discussion

[phoet]

@alterisian sorry for the delay! it looks like the message that i sent from my phone got lost...

my point was, that i'd definitively merge a PR for such an improvement.

would you be interested in building it?

[alterisian]

Absolutely interested in implementing this, but thought first I'd check to see if it'd had previously been thought of and discarded by the admin team.

It's encouraging that you'd merge such a PR :) In principal do you mind me posting to the RUG::B list about adding it? Maybe a small survey of 3 questions will help validate demand?

I would then implement it, and hopefully have an update for folks attending the next RUG::B event :)

[phoet]

Sounds great!