On 9/28/15, Frances Hocutt <fhocutt(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Brian Wolff
<bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That said, gsoc/opw usually doesn't reflect
Wikimedia community
priorities all that much (imo).
Do you have any thoughts on why that might be? As I'm on the Community Tech
team, I'd love to mentor someone working on a community-centric project.
A potential issue I see there is scope and identifying requirements. It's
very easy for onlookers to continue making suggestions and saying that this
and that needs to be tweaked, even as the project goes on, and dealing with
that process can take a lot of time. In a 10-week internship, it's more of
a problem if consensus suddenly shifts around week 8 and suddenly the thing
they've been working on is no longer wanted in its current form.
Thoughts?
-Frances
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I guess because people want things that are self contained and "small"
but not too "small", which limits what you can fix.
Don't get me wrong, they are useful projects (Usually, not always).
But they usually don't strike me as things that the community would
say are super high priority, most of the time. (At least imho).
--
-bawolff