Hello,
I think it'll be great. Not at this moment rightly, but sometimes in
the past I would have liked to ask devs questions tiny and hence
hesitate to post to wikitech-l. IRC helped somehow but timezones have
been always a barrier, and in these days I tend not to know who to
speak, even if I still know some of devs and sysadmins personally and
have realized enough none of them would bite.
I guess I wouldn't be an exception in this community and such a
face-to-face Q/A time in a relaxed atmosphere would help a lot.
Cheers,
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de> wrote:
Hello all
As you probably know, this year's Wikimania will again feature hacking days
(which I help to organize), just before Wikimania proper. However, the current
setup is missing an opportunity for developers and chapter people to get
together and talk about what the community wants and needs.
So, I would like to propose to have a Q/A session where the community can ask
questions to developers. I'd like to do this during Wikimania proper, so
everyone has a chance to attend.
The question is: are people interested? Or is it just my silly idea?
I feel that people often have "small" questions that developers could answer
quickly, or there are long standing issues and it's unclear why they don't get
fixed. But often people don't know who to ask, or when or how. At the Wikimedia
Conference in Berlin last year, some people used the opportunity to grab a
techie, which was good, but it was while standing up, over coffee. I'd like to
give this a bit more time, space and especially attention.
So, would you be interested in such a session? Or do you know people who would be?
Please let me know.
Cheers
Daniel
PS: Danese suggested a "fishbowl" type session for this. I think that's a
good
idea. Look it up on Wikipedia if you don't know what it is - I didn't :)
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