Hi,
I was hoping to participate in Outreachy[1] Round 11 (Dec-Mar 2015) on a Design project. Outreachy is an internship program over 3 months on programming, design, documentation, marketing, or other kinds of contributions. A project in Outreachy needs a mentor and an intern. Often a mentor and a co-mentor.
I found Possible-Tech-Projects[2] in Phabricator which has a large number of development related possible projects related to MediaWiki, but I was unable to find any Design related projects. Is there a project you think I could work on and you'd be willing to mentor me on it? I'm interested in Hovercards[3] and Night display[4], but I'm open to others too!
[1] https://gnome.org/outreachy/ [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112162#1630351
Hi Tasneem,
Thanks for reaching out.
You can take a look at the design phabricator board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/design/ and see what might interest you. I suggest once you find something, reach out to the designer who is active in the thread and ask if she/he could mentor you.
All the best! May
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:29 AM, Tasneem Lohani tasneem.lo.31@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I was hoping to participate in Outreachy[1] Round 11 (Dec-Mar 2015) on a Design project. Outreachy is an internship program over 3 months on programming, design, documentation, marketing, or other kinds of contributions. A project in Outreachy needs a mentor and an intern. Often a mentor and a co-mentor.
I found Possible-Tech-Projects[2] in Phabricator which has a large number of development related possible projects related to MediaWiki, but I was unable to find any Design related projects. Is there a project you think I could work on and you'd be willing to mentor me on it? I'm interested in Hovercards[3] and Night display[4], but I'm open to others too!
[1] https://gnome.org/outreachy/ [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112162#1630351
Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:34 PM, May Tee-Galloway mgalloway@wikimedia.org wrote:
You can take a look at the design phabricator board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/design/ and see what might interest you. I suggest once you find something, reach out to the designer who is active in the thread and ask if she/he could mentor you.
Outreachy is a full-time internship program that lasts about three months. In order to estimate the appropriate size of a project, you may think of an epic task that would take two weeks for a senior designer already familiar with our projects. Such project should have already community consensus, or at least have a low risk of being contentious.
The Design backlog contains many tasks, but most of them require software development skills to be completed, and the ones requiring UX design skills only seem to be much smaller.
Tasneem, do you have a portfolio or some information about your design skills and work that might help May and other designers find a suitable project for you? Thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikimedia.
Hi Quim,
Thank you for the tip on identifying projects that would fit the timeframe.
I do not have a portfolio of design related things because I have not done much of it ! I was hoping to help out at MediaWiki and learn how to make designs for software. Although I have never done any design work for software, I have done some paintings and sketches. Also, I am already well versed in development but wanted to learn design and hence was hoping to do a Design related project in Outreachy.
So, in a nutshell, I'd be able to do development related projects, but would prefer design ones as I've never done it, and want to learn it. So, maybe a partial design + development would be appropriate, where I'd get a chance to design and implement something.
Also, Have there been any efforts towards a Mobile app for Windows phone ? I've never seen it, and I'd love to help design it !
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:34 PM, May Tee-Galloway <mgalloway@wikimedia.org
wrote:
You can take a look at the design phabricator board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/design/ and see what might interest you. I suggest once you find something, reach out to the designer who is active in the thread and ask if she/he could mentor you.
Outreachy is a full-time internship program that lasts about three months. In order to estimate the appropriate size of a project, you may think of an epic task that would take two weeks for a senior designer already familiar with our projects. Such project should have already community consensus, or at least have a low risk of being contentious.
The Design backlog contains many tasks, but most of them require software development skills to be completed, and the ones requiring UX design skills only seem to be much smaller.
Tasneem, do you have a portfolio or some information about your design skills and work that might help May and other designers find a suitable project for you? Thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikimedia.
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Tasneem Lohani tasneem.lo.31@gmail.com wrote:
Also, Have there been any efforts towards a Mobile app for Windows phone ? I've never seen it, and I'd love to help design it !
No, Windows Phone has never been a priority. But I'd love to have a native app experience :)
There is a Windows 10 app, though I'm not sure how it's supported. Once Windows 10 is shipped for phones, that app will likely need to be made phone compatible.
Cheers, Jonathan Morgan WMFs only(?) Windows Phone user
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:34 PM, May Tee-Galloway < mgalloway@wikimedia.org> wrote:
You can take a look at the design phabricator board https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/design/ and see what might interest you. I suggest once you find something, reach out to the designer who is active in the thread and ask if she/he could mentor you.
Outreachy is a full-time internship program that lasts about three months. In order to estimate the appropriate size of a project, you may think of an epic task that would take two weeks for a senior designer already familiar with our projects. Such project should have already community consensus, or at least have a low risk of being contentious.
The Design backlog contains many tasks, but most of them require software development skills to be completed, and the ones requiring UX design skills only seem to be much smaller.
Tasneem, do you have a portfolio or some information about your design skills and work that might help May and other designers find a suitable project for you? Thank you for your interest in contributing to Wikimedia.
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Tasneem Lohani tasneem.lo.31@gmail.com wrote:
So, in a nutshell, I'd be able to do development related projects, but would prefer design ones as I've never done it, and want to learn it. So, maybe a partial design + development would be appropriate, where I'd get a chance to design and implement something.
If you can develop and want to learn design, then what about looking at the current intersection between #Possible-Tech-Projects and #Design?
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/Nv9XniDXJG50/#R
We have tried internships projects about 'develop an app about something' but they are problematic. All good while the internship runs, but then if the post-intern disappears... who maintains the new app? This problem has happened even in projects run by WMF teams.
Hi Jonathan, Quim,
@Jonathan - Yes, I saw that, but i noticed that the project name itself was "Unofficial-Apps-Wikipedia0Windows-8" XD I personally find Win0 for phones unstable (as of now) But if they do deliver what they claim, there'd be little/no change needed to run that on the windows 10 mobile.
@Quim - Thanks a lot for the #Design + #Possible-Tech-Projects. Although I saw them both, I never thought of filtering based on both (Although in hindsight it seems very obvious.) The timeline project seems to be very interesting, I'll head over there and see if they're lookig to do an Outreachy project.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Tasneem Lohani tasneem.lo.31@gmail.com wrote:
So, in a nutshell, I'd be able to do development related projects, but would prefer design ones as I've never done it, and want to learn it. So, maybe a partial design + development would be appropriate, where I'd get a chance to design and implement something.
If you can develop and want to learn design, then what about looking at the current intersection between #Possible-Tech-Projects and #Design?
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/Nv9XniDXJG50/#R
We have tried internships projects about 'develop an app about something' but they are problematic. All good while the internship runs, but then if the post-intern disappears... who maintains the new app? This problem has happened even in projects run by WMF teams.
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
On Sep 14, 2015 08:05, "Tasneem Lohani" tasneem.lo.31@gmail.com wrote:
Also, Have there been any efforts towards a Mobile app for Windows phone
? I've never seen it, and I'd love to help design it !
Some relevant discussion starting at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-July/009547.html
On Nick (:Quiddity)'s suggestion I have created a WIki page of my own : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TasneemLo
So, if you have any thoughts about projects, please do look at my interests, and throw it at me :)
Also, wanted to elaborate on an earlier point of knowing a bit of development, I've used a fair number of languages that WMF uses. To be specific, I am very familiar with PHP, Javascript+JQuery, HTML+CSS and Python. Regarding mobile, I am very well versed with Java + Android, and I have done little windows app development with C# too. Never worked nor used iOS though.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:45 AM, S Page spage@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sep 14, 2015 08:05, "Tasneem Lohani" tasneem.lo.31@gmail.com wrote:
Also, Have there been any efforts towards a Mobile app for Windows phone
? I've never seen it, and I'd love to help design it !
Some relevant discussion starting at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-July/009547.html
Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design
I found this link with tasks filtered to easy and open on Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/ePvtv_ahPMrx/#R that might help also.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 6:29 AM, Tasneem Lohani tasneem.lo.31@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I was hoping to participate in Outreachy[1] Round 11 (Dec-Mar 2015) on a Design project. Outreachy is an internship program over 3 months on programming, design, documentation, marketing, or other kinds of contributions. A project in Outreachy needs a mentor and an intern. Often a mentor and a co-mentor.
I found Possible-Tech-Projects[2] in Phabricator which has a large number of development related possible projects related to MediaWiki, but I was unable to find any Design related projects. Is there a project you think I could work on and you'd be willing to mentor me on it? I'm interested in Hovercards[3] and Night display[4], but I'm open to others too!
[1] https://gnome.org/outreachy/ [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/ [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112162#1630351
Design mailing list Design@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design