WMF is made up of individuals. If there's something that you think should be done, why not figure out which team it would normally fall under, and politely suggest it to the people on the team that they should make it a priority (If it doesn't fall under any team - lets be realistic, it probably won't be done) They're either going to say yes or they're going to say no. The better reasoned your argument for why its important, the more likely they are going to say yes. That said, gsoc/opw usually doesn't reflect Wikimedia community priorities all that much (imo). -- -bawolff On 9/28/15, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: there dev we are for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112620 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

I was told by a WMF non-management employee that they have little discretion about which projects they're working on, and that the decisions about priorities come top-down. Hence my interest in engaging with the quarterly planning processes and the people managing those processes to see if there's a way to get community input into the teams' quarterly goals.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l