Goal

The goal is to identify and evaluate skill resources and skill gaps within the Steem ecosystem.

Purpose

It is designed to facilitate skill tracking for major ecosystem-improvement projects such as the Steem Alliance and similar.

Current State

The sheet currently is based on the self-identification of skills by @steemalliance (Steem Alliance) nominees based on their posted profiles.

Usage Examples

Example of Primary Use: Alice is developing a community governance documentation portal and asks Bob to create a database for it.
Example of Secondary Use: Alice finds that the dev portal requires a recipe for account recovery and asks Bob to help her test it.
Example of Tertiary Use: If Alice needs a developer for a project she can refer to the spreadsheet and connect with Bob.

Listed users are skilled individuals with:

A - Desire to contribute pro bono*
B - Identifiable skills to continue

Next steps:

1 - Finish identifying competencies
2 - Fill out profiles on all users who have A + B

_{*Limited pro bono (free) contribution to benefit the ecosystem as a whole. It does not constitute a commitment to provide valuable services for free.}

Self-Identification and Voluntarism

The purpose of this is to honestly list skills. You self-identify your skills. That being said, the sheet loses purpose if individuals are embellishing their skills. Anyone trying to add skills for themselves they blatantly do not possess will be publicly ~~struck out~~ from the list as that becomes a question of their integrity.

Skills

Formative education → ie. Comp Sci masters degree, Certified Professional Accounting designation
Years of experience on self-directed projects → ie. Github repo with verifiable quality commits over the years
Professional range of work experience → ie. 10 years in senior management roles at Company XYZ

Not a skill:

Personal belief that you are great at something
Being part of a project or community that focuses on supporting a skill → ie. the creator of a technical writing project is not a professional technical writer by default
Free online courses → ie. taking a Coursera class in strategic management does not make you a strategic manager
Self-education via Wikipedia and similar

After the sheet is filled out to some respectable level we'll code it into the chain and pull into a website.

Feedback

This is a Continuous Improvement project.

Document

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Af7JLrsDA7vBtrwR1NB4z4eKRYlr8RtJsOQ0dSexd1w/edit#gid=0

_{It is read-only to prevent users from editing each other's skills.}

Next Steps

Identify more skills/competencies
Fill out sheet

Next Steps Update

01-24-19 - additional skills added to sheet

Read Me

This post is a Read Me document and will be updated as necessary.

Contribute

Volunteer and self-identify your skills in comments or suggest a process improvement.

Userbase Skills Matrix