(An early heads-up that Google Code-in 2017 has been announced.)
GCI is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It will take
place from Nov28 to Jan17 and is not only about coding tasks.
For some achievements from last round, see
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/03/google-code-in/
For complete info about Google Code-in, check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors
While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted:
* You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed?
* Your documentation needs specific improvements?
* Your user interface has small design issues?
* Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks?
* You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua?
* Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls?
* You have tasks in mind that welcome some research?
Also note that "Beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant" etc) and
"generic" tasks are very welcome (e.g. "Choose & fix 2 PHP7 issues
from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336 ").
Because we will need hundreds of tasks. :)
And we also have more than 400 unassigned open 'easy' tasks listed:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R
Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your
p
roject(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors
and please ask if you have any questions!
Thanks!,
andre
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Good Day Developer,
You may have attended the AWMD training organised at IMPACT HUB some weeks
back by Open Foundation West Africa. It was awesome having you around. In
view of the major discussions around strengthening the community with
constant debugging to increase our bragging rights across Africa, we would
want to know if you:
- Would you be ready to work as an active volunteer developer on the
(Africa Wikimedia Developer Project in Ghana) AWMD Ghana Team? We are
looking at getting a Team that would work actively on solving bugs and
continue the good work that was started. In so doing we would want to
know your decision and if you are ready to put to use, the skills acquired
from the training we had sometime back.
- Can tell us if you think you can make time within your schedule to
champion this great course?
- Are familiar with github and slack? If not we can provide more insight
and support to get you going smoothly.
However, based on your response we would send you the details to our
(collective/unified) github account and our slack account details so that
we can get ""debugging"" :) :)
Please confirm your email and contact number by writing it as part of your
reply to this email.
NB: This mail is to only Ghanaian developers.
Regards,
Edward Afful
Lead AWMD Ghana Team
Hi everyone,
I am not from Ghana but I am interested in helping with the good work.
Please let me know if I can be a part of this.
GitHub: gyana111(a)gmail.com
Thank you.
On 30-Sep-2017 16:36, "Alfred Afutu" <alfredafutu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes I would love to actively contribute to the Wikimedia project.
>
> Email: alfredafutu(a)gmail.com
> Contact: 0555501853
>
> On Sep 30, 2017 09:15, "Edward Afful" <eddyafful(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good Day Developer,
>>
>> You may have attended the AWMD training organised at IMPACT HUB some
>> weeks back by Open Foundation West Africa. It was awesome having you
>> around. In view of the major discussions around strengthening the community
>> with constant debugging to increase our bragging rights across Africa, we
>> would want to know if you:
>>
>> - Would you be ready to work as an active volunteer developer on the
>> (Africa Wikimedia Developer Project in Ghana) AWMD Ghana Team? We
>> are looking at getting a Team that would work actively on solving bugs and
>> continue the good work that was started. In so doing we would want to
>> know your decision and if you are ready to put to use, the skills acquired
>> from the training we had sometime back.
>> - Can tell us if you think you can make time within your schedule to
>> champion this great course?
>> - Are familiar with github and slack? If not we can provide more
>> insight and support to get you going smoothly.
>>
>> However, based on your response we would send you the details to our
>> (collective/unified) github account and our slack account details so
>> that we can get ""debugging"" :) :)
>>
>> Please confirm your email and contact number by writing it as part of
>> your reply to this email.
>>
>>
>> NB: This mail is to only Ghanaian developers.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Edward Afful
>> Lead AWMD Ghana Team
>>
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>>
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Hello all,
We are pleased to announce Google Summer of Code 2018 <http://g.co/gsoc>,
the 14th consecutive year of the program.
We have announced
<https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-google-summer-of-code-…>
the main dates (org apps open, etc.) on the program timeline
<https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline>. Additional dates
will be added into the timeline later in 2017.
Students -- Be sure visit the program site February 12th when participating
mentoring organizations are announced. At that point it is in your best
interest to research the organizations that have projects ideas that
intrigue you and reach out to them early, before the student application
process even starts. Communication is one of the most important parts of
the program.
Organizations -- If you would like to apply for the 2018 program please
start thinking about the projects you would like students to work on and
also reach out to your community members to ask if they would like to be
mentors for the program.
We are looking forward to another exciting year of GSoC!
Last week we also announced the Google Code-in 2017 <http://g.co/gci> (GCI)
contest for 13-17 year old students. GCI is open for past GSoC mentoring
organizations to apply to be a part of this exciting contest from October
9th - October 24th. GCI opens for student participants on November 28th!
You can read more about the contest on our blog
<https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-google-code-in-2017.ht…>
.
For any questions about the programs please email us at
gsoc-support(a)google.com
Best,
Google OSPO team
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Perside Rosalie
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Hello,
We are pleased to announce Google Code-in 2017 <http://g.co/gci>, the 8th
straight year of the program for pre-university students ages 13-17.
The GCI timeline, FAQs, Rules and flyers have been updated on the contest
site <http://g.co/gci>.
Organizations -- If you would like to apply for the 2017 program please
start thinking about the tasks you would like students to work on and also
reach out to your community members to ask if they would like to be mentors
for the program. Applications open for GCI orgs very soon - on October 9th,
and close 2 weeks later on October 24th. We will announce
organizations on Thursday,
October 26th giving orgs over a month to create their tasks before the
contest begins on November 28th.
We are looking to continue the growth of this program and reach a record
number of teenagers this year! Read more on today’s blog post
<https://opensource.googleblog.com/2017/09/announcing-google-code-in-2017.ht…>
.
If you have any questions about Google Code-in please contact us at
gci-support(a)google.com
Best,
Stephanie
*Forwarded as Received!*
Hello everyone,
We've released OOjs UI 0.23.0, yesterday. It will be in MediaWiki core from
1.30.0-wmf.18, which will be deployed to Wikimedia production in
the regular train, starting on Tuesday 12 September. As there are five
breaking
changes in this release, at least nominally, please carefully consider if
they
affect your code.
Breaking changes since last release:
* Remove CardLayout and references in IndexLayout (Volker E.)
CardLayout was renamed to TabPanelLayout in v0.21.3 and all its references
updated
back then; now its alias has been removed.
* Remove FloatingMenuSelectWidget (Volker E.)
FloatingMenuSelectWidget got deprecated in v0.21.3 and now has been removed.
Use MenuSelectWidget instead.
* Remove back-compat `OO.ui` prefix assumption in infusion code (Prateek
Saxena)
We've requested that infused data contained the full class name, rather
than assuming
the "OO.ui" prefix, since v0.12.0. Backwards-compatible `OO.ui` prefixing
has been
removed in this release.
* icons: Remove 'caret' icons (James D. Forrester)
The 'caretUp', 'caretDown', 'caretLast', and 'caretNext' icons were
deprecated
and replaced with the almost-identical 'collapse', 'expand', 'previous',
and 'next' ones
in v0.21.3 and are now removed completely.
* icons: Remove 'wikitrail' icon (James D. Forrester)
'wikitrail' icon was renamed to 'mapTrail' for consistency in v0.20.1.
Deprecations since last release:
* BookletLayout: Rename `getClosestPage()` to `findClosestPage()` (Prateek
Saxena)
Renaming this getter for one of the 0+ items inside to `findClosestPage()`
for consistency.
Please switch over to the new name.
* icons: Flag unused 'sun' icon as to be removed (James D. Forrester)
'sun' icon isn't in use in any of our products or products known to us,
nor is it planned to be used. In order to keep things small, we'll remove
the icon
in next breaking release.
* icons: Move 'eye'/'eyeClosed' to 'accessibility' (Volker E.)
We want to use 'alerts' pack more deliberately in major products and gonna
move certain icons to other packs.
* icons: Move 'signature' to 'editing-advanced' (Volker E.)
We want to use 'alerts' pack more deliberately in major products and gonna
move certain icons to other packs.
Please update your icon pack references accordingly in case you're using
this
icon.
Additional details on the 11 new features, 63 code-level and accessibility
changes,
28 styling and interaction design fixes, and all improvements since v0.22.0
are in
the full changelog[0]. If you have any further queries or need help dealing
with breaking changes, please let me know.
As always, a general set of library documentation is
available on mediawiki.org[1], and there is some comprehensive
generated code-level documentation and interactive demos hosted on
doc.wikimedia.org[2].
[0] - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GOJU/
browse/master/History.md
[1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI
[2] - https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/
Best,
Volker
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Senior UX Engineer, Contributors
Wikimedia Foundation
volker.e [at] wikimedia | @Volker_E
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Hi, after a long long journey...
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Newsletters !
The Newsletter extension is a tool to facilitate subscription and delivery
of newsletters hosted on MediaWiki-based sites. You can learn more about
this extension at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Newsletter
Any newsletters within the scope of MediaWiki.org can be created. In
previous discussions it was agreed to only allow administrators to create
newsletters. Once a newsletter is created, their publishers can announce
new issues at will without requiring administrators anymore.
If you want to create a newsletter and you need an administrator to do it,
we will be happy to help you at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Txn15jri131au12s
If you want to report problems, request features, or get involved in the
project, please check https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/888/
PS: BIG THANK YOU to everybody involved in this project. Proper attribution
and celebration will come in a blog post summarizing these ~2,5 years of
planning, development, testing, and deployment to a first Wikimedia wiki.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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Forwarded as received!!!
On 28 - 30 September 2017, Open Foundation West Africa will hold the first
ever Summer Open School in the Sub Sahara African Region in Accra, Ghana at
the Lancaster University. The Summer Open School seeks to bring together
open advocates, tech enthusiasts and people with the desire to know more
about Open resources under one roof, to afford these participants the
opportunity to learn about the different open resources and to possibly
become contributors and avid users of such resources. Again this will help
participants and trainers alike to discuss critical issues, network and be
abreast with the new trends within the Open movement. There will be
different trainers who will lead different trainings, breakout out sessions
and talks all aimed at promoting education, culture and heritage
information and information and technology in Ghana through the use of free
and accessible open source softwares.
The Summer Open School will take participants through sessions on Wikipedia
and other sister projects (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, etc), Creative
Commons, Open Street Maps (OSM) and Mozilla. Developers or people desirous
of knowing more about developer contributions to the open movement will be
introduced to the software that holds various WikiProjects, MediaWiki.
There will also be a session on Cryptocurrency specifically dedicated to
PIVX to expose people to trends in cryptocurrencies, how enthusiasts could
start mining and will be given a startup booster with a complimentary
wallet.
It is heartwarming to know that in pursuance of the mission of the open
movement to making knowledge about open resources free and accessible to
all, this event is going to be free to participants. There are however
limited seats available and therefore participation is strictly by
registration which is also subject to the approval by the organizing Team
based on merits.
Register today via www.summeropenschool.eventbrite.com
Warm regards,
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*Felix Nartey*
*Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin*
*Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>*
*+233242844987 | +447440959477*
*Skype:Flixtey*
Hello all,
Hope we are doing great? There now exist a WhatsApp group for quick reach
on the go, so some basic questions and discussion can be taking place.
Here is the link: https://chat.whatsapp.com/3azXRBCDlJ3APaLR3F6QWc so
please we kindly request that you all should join the group and ask your
questions. I am always more than ready to answer you.
Thanks for your time and looking forward to start seeing you all in the
group.
Kind regards
Alangi Derick N