At the Dev Summit, Birgit Müller and I will run a session on Growing the
MediaWiki Technical Community. If you're attending, we hope you will
consider joining us.
Everyone (attending the Dev Summit or not) is welcome and encouraged to
participate at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183318 (please comment
there, rather than by email).
We are discussing the following questions:
* What would allow you to develop and plan your software more efficiently?
* What would make software development more fun for you?
* What other Open Source communities do we share interests with?
* How can we change our processes to take technical debt more seriously?
"Develop" means any kind of work on a software system, including design,
documentation, etc.
Our topics are:
* Better processes and project management practices, integrating all
developers and allowing them to work more efficiently
* Building partnerships with other Open Source communities on shared
interests (e.g. translation, audio, video)
* Reducing technical debt
Matt Flaschen
Hey all,
Suzzane LaBarre, an editor at Fast Company, wrote an update to Dieter
Rams "Ten principles for good design". Personally I enjoyed this one
item Kottke (where I found this) highlights.
"Good design is slow. For the past 20 years, tech has embraced a “move
fast and break things” mantra. That was fine when software had a
relatively small impact on the world. But today, it shapes nearly
every aspect of our lives, from what we read to whom we date to how we
spend money-and it’s largely optimized to benefit corporations, not
users. The stakes have changed, the methods haven’t."
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the 'new' principles and how it
might apply to Wikimedia-related efforts.
https://kottke.org/18/01/ten-new-principles-for-good-design
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation