I was looking at nominating someone for an award, but to do so, I am required to provide their mobile number, with no reason given, as to why an email address doesn't suffice. I don't know anyone who wants an unscheduled call from an unknown number, and that put me off.

The form also required me to provide "For individuals GitHub and/or LinkedIn*".

Lots of people I know don't use LinkedIn, for all number of good reasons, and use forges/hosting other than GitHub.

In the context of this award, requiring use of proprietary platforms just seems weird.

Again, no reason given as to why it must be one of those two options, rather than just one or more relevant points of presence online.

Oh well.