On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Gilles Dubuc <gilles(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
personally i really liked your comparison, when we were chatting the
other
day, to an artist in residence -- imo,
programmers are the artists of our
time and this matches well.
To me the point
is to have our engineering more open and collaborative, which in my opinion
would also increase pure volunteer contributions as a side effect. This is
very hard to do in anything other than a non-profit open source project, I
think we're in a position to make very interesting things happen through
such efforts.
Such good timing. As a direct result of meeting at Wikimania (thanks Nik
Everett), here is an expert from Expedia who would like to contribute to
our security efforts. He has posted to the QA mail list:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2014-August/001847.html