Hi,
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Gilles Dubuc <gilles(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
asking corporations
with software engineering staff if they would be willing to let their
employees volunteer their expertise and time to mediawiki while ideally
still being on their employer's payroll. I mean engineering in the wide
sense of the term, including Ops, QA, etc. and maybe even UX.
SocialCoding4Good puts in touch companies with open source projects. We are
nominally collaborating for a couple of years now, although for a reason or
another we haven't go any volunteers. See
http://www.socialcoding4good.org/organizations/wikimedia
From the WMF side we haven't insisted much either,
partially because of our
growth in internships via outreach programs, partially
because I wasn't
sure how willing would be our dev teams to try this model (this was before
Aron Arcos joined us as volunteer). If you are interested, we can ping them
back.