As somebody who doesn't use Github regularly, it's a horrible alternative to a resume. Looking at his profile[1] it's hard for me to figure out what he's actually done and it's a bigger time investment on my part. If somebody on my team forwarded me that link instead of a one page resume, I doubt I'd talk to him.
He has 58 public repos, but I can't see if he's had significant commits to them. Picking some commits at random from the activity doesn't help much either.
If you are going to restrict your job hunting to people who use GitHub and who contact you, it may be ideal, but why restrict your potential audience so dramatically?
Agreed. A large portion of "his" repos are forked from other people's. You can't tell what his level of contribution to any of them is at a glance. Also, he's got an absurd number of files for a project called "Hello World".
Perhaps a better alternative is to keep using GitHub to host your code, but then use your resume to highlight specific projects that you want to show to hiring managers. If they're really interested in you, they might look at some of your other stuff.
Actually you can tell, at a glance, how many commits are by the "owner" of a repo. They appear as dark blue in the timeline. If he has forked a project and made his own commits, his commits will show up as "owner" (e.g. for pydanny, he has made numerous commits to his fork of django-crispy-forms)
You raise an excellent point. My Github account doesn't clearly indicate the other projects I've worked on that the Python/Django community knows I lead. Such efforts as https://github.com/opencomparison/opencomparison, which powers http://djangopackages.com. I have admin rights there and in retrospect, perhaps foolishly push directly there.
When I'm asked to provide code examples, I link to these projects. But now, in retrospect, I should fork the things I commit regularly to and provide that to possible employers.
He has 58 public repos, but I can't see if he's had significant commits to them. Picking some commits at random from the activity doesn't help much either.
If you are going to restrict your job hunting to people who use GitHub and who contact you, it may be ideal, but why restrict your potential audience so dramatically?
[1] https://github.com/pydanny