<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div><div></div><div>Excellent! I'll be sure to set my alarm! </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for getting back to me so fast.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">Sent from Samsung Mobile</div></div></div> <br>Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org> wrote:<br>Hi Vernon,<br><br>On 06/17/2013 09:22 AM, vernon@virtesting.com wrote:<br>> are you planning on having folks be able to attend remotely?<br><br>Sure! If you are awake... (we will organize other workshops at more <br>EuroAsian-friendly times).<br><br>We will be streaming it over YouTube and I will be paying attention to <br>the IRC channel for questions / comments. Besides, the session will be <br>recorded. We might be using etherads and wiki pages. Not perfect but I <br>believe as good as cheap tech gets you nowadays.<br><br><br>> And as a general question, what is it you would like someone like me to<br>> contribute? The emails so far have had a code-y flavour to them (which<br>> is cool btw, just an observation NOT a criticism!) and my coding<br>> "skills" are worse than terrible. Any hopes/ideas where someone like me<br>> might be able to lend a hand?<br><br>Being a fluent English speaker you have a lot of what it takes - see <br>http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/How_to_contribute<br><br>The first part of the workshop is an introduction for everybody. Then we <br>will ask people to pair in couples with different levels of expertise. <br>So you will go with someone with better dev skills, remote or in SF.<br><br>It's ok if during the more advanced part of the workshop you stay <br>watching "over the shoulder" most of the time. This is the best way of <br>learning!<br><br>PS: and I'm in the same situation than you - no worries. :)<br><br>-- <br>Quim Gil<br>Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation<br>http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>QA mailing list<br>QA@lists.wikimedia.org<br>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa<br></body>