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Wiki represents what's best about the web but there are people who seem to want to waste their time and ours. If you think this is a place to advertise some kind of cheap tablets or just mess around, then we're sorry to say you are mistaken. This is a place only for real people with honest intentions aligned with our own. If you are misaligned with us, no problem. There is just no point going any further. We maintain this wiki every day so any inappropriate content is as good as gone. Thanks for stopping by.

If you are still here, great, we believe we can offer a world of opportunity. Please go to TWikiRegistration to register yourself on this wiki to get started. The information below tells you what you need to do after you are registered.

Registering is the first step. That way you can showcase your skills and we can see if we have an opportunity that interests you. By registering it also allows clients to see the capability you bring and increases the chances of identifying opportunities suitable for you. We want all interested people to register first so that when clients visit the site we will have a capability profile depending on the skills and availability of our registered people. Just because you have the required skills, you may not be available when an assignment requires your services.

You can unregister at any time by simply emailing your request to unregister@kaNOSPAM.com.au. If you have been registered for a time and no benefit has come to you then you may want to do that, although maybe the reason could be your skills and capability statements need detailing or perhaps your availability profile may have too little free time, thus precluding you from any assignments. It may be better to contact us at people@kaNOSPAM.com.au first to discuss your situation.

Skill Groups

Following registration, from your home page which you can access from your registration name displayed in the top left corner of the screen where it says "Hello...", enter your SkillGroups.

Your capability is based on your Skill Groups. This is not always simply what you have done before. It is a combination of that, what you know, what you have learned and what you are ready to start working on or aspire to do. Those are the things that define the skills you are capable of deploying tomorrow.

It should take you up to about one hour to complete the skills group properly. It should be a very comprehensive decomposition of your ability.

Capability Statements

This is where you can add some more statements about your capabilities and notable things you have done or can do. This will be useful when searching this wiki site.

My Availability

Currently we are using a dedicated public Google Calendar to identify your busy and free times. It is very important you keep this calendar up to date with your availability. There is no point you having the right skills and knowledge for an assignment when you are, in fact, not available to do it. It is the combination of skills and availability that define the capabilities we can offer customers.

You only need indicate "busy" times on your calendar. Details are not required. We only need to know if you are available or not. No personal event details need be shown.

To add the Google Calendar, do the following:

1. Register for a free Google account if you don't already have one. We are going to use Google Apps more and more so you will need a Google account to work at ka in any case.
2. Once logged in, click on Calendar.
3. On the left under the title "My calendars" click "Add".
4. Enter your name as the calendar title.
5. Enter your timezone and other details.
6. Under the "Share this calendar" panel, check the two boxes "Make this calendar public" and "Share only my free/busy information".
7. Click the "Save" button.
8. On the main page again in the "My calendars" list click on the down arrow to the right of the new calendar name and select "Calendar settings".
9. Copy the iframe HTML code from the "Embed this calendar" field.
10. Back on this ka wiki, go to your personal home page.
11. Click "Raw edit" and paste the HTML code under the heading "My Availability".
12. Click the "Save" button and you're done.

Personal Profile

This is where you can add any words you want to say about yourself.

Of course you can write as many words on your personal home page as you like and can put your CV there if you want to. That's not really recommended. We are more interested in what you can do tomorrow than in what you did yesterday. The skills group profile is a better way to demonstrate both.

The things you are more proficient at are probably the things that you have done before. But they also might be things that are your personal hobby and interest, even though you've never actually had some one pay you to deliver a service using those skills.

Or maybe you worked closely with somebody who was a guru in project management, or C programming, or site construction management. Even though you may never have had a job in that field, maybe you worked closely enough with that guru to the extent that you learned a lot. Maybe you now have a working knowledge in that field. Maybe you could begin to work in that field at the appropriate level in the appropriate environment. Maybe all you need is the right opportunity.

So, leave the skills definition to the skills groups. You must be brutally honest with yourself. If you delude yourself you will quickly come undone.

So we think it would be better to write about you, as a person, in your personal profile. What are your hobbies and non-work related interests. What are your long term aspirations. What knowledge do you need to acquire in the next year or five or ten years to reach your long term goals. Do you even have long term goals? What excites you? What are you passionate about. Those things tell us and prospective client a lot about you.