Hello,
I'm about to submit a couple of proposals for presentations at FOSDEM
[1]. One will be a lightning talk about how to contribute to MediaWiki
and get the results of your work running in Wikipedia and similar sites.
The other one will be a session for the Community development and
Marketing DevRoom, explaining the MediaWiki community, how does it
relate to Wikipedia, ongoing activities, ways to get involved...
Maybe the second will be an extended play of the first. We'll see.
Regardless of whether the FOSDEM proposals are accepted or not, I will
work on them between now and the end of January. We need those
presentations so badly, especially now that we are ramping up MediaWiki
Groups [2] and many people will need exactly this kind of materials for
their own presentations and event.
I'm not bad at creating stories, even with slides. But I suck designing
and, what is worst, I spend a lot of time just to get average results.
Especially because I hate slides with bullet points. This is why I come
here looking for a volunteer teammate full of MediaWiki/Wikimedia love
and with some free time in the following weeks.
Interested? Just reply explaining your interest in this project, your
availability and links to works you have done. Thank you in advance!
PS: on a collateral note I just proposed MediaWiki Group Marketing [3] -
you might be interested in joining/endorsing, or you might prefer to
propose other groups with other scopes [4].
[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Marketing
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil