After talking with both Arturo and Birgit about things we might
present at Wikimania, I came up with this abstract for a talk:
Co-creating platforms and products: how the Wikimedia Cloud Services
team works with the larger Wikimedia technical community to build and
maintain Cloud VPS, Toolforge, Quarry, PAWS, and more
Did you know that volunteers are involved in planning, building, and
maintaining the Cloud VPS and Toolforge projects as co-equals with
paid staff from the Wikimedia Foundation? Since the start of the
"Labs" project in 2011, one of the guiding principles for WMCS
projects has been improving collaboration between Foundation staff and
technical volunteers. Learn more about some of the policies and
practices that are used to make this collaboration possible.
The submission would be under either the "governance" or "technology"
tracks. I think it would work best as a panel discussion that is
either "hybrid" (some folks in Singapore, some on-line) or
pre-recorded video.
I think this is something that folks in the community might be
interested in learning a bit about. I also think it would be
interesting for those of us who have participated in this process to
take some time to reflect on how we have worked together in the past
and how we might like to see those those processes and practices
evolve in the future. To make this talk work well there should be
active voices from both the paid and volunteer staff involved. Towards
that end, I'm mailing the cloud-admin@ list + 4 of you that I know
have been active in the past in helping with Toolforge and/or Cloud
VPS admin and features work to gauge your interest in participating.
Thoughts?
Bryan
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Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA
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