Hello,
I'm about to submit a couple of proposals for presentations at FOSDEM [1]. One will be a lightning talk about how to contribute to MediaWiki and get the results of your work running in Wikipedia and similar sites. The other one will be a session for the Community development and Marketing DevRoom, explaining the MediaWiki community, how does it relate to Wikipedia, ongoing activities, ways to get involved...
Maybe the second will be an extended play of the first. We'll see.
Regardless of whether the FOSDEM proposals are accepted or not, I will work on them between now and the end of January. We need those presentations so badly, especially now that we are ramping up MediaWiki Groups [2] and many people will need exactly this kind of materials for their own presentations and event.
I'm not bad at creating stories, even with slides. But I suck designing and, what is worst, I spend a lot of time just to get average results. Especially because I hate slides with bullet points. This is why I come here looking for a volunteer teammate full of MediaWiki/Wikimedia love and with some free time in the following weeks.
Interested? Just reply explaining your interest in this project, your availability and links to works you have done. Thank you in advance!
PS: on a collateral note I just proposed MediaWiki Group Marketing [3] - you might be interested in joining/endorsing, or you might prefer to propose other groups with other scopes [4].
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Marketing [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals
On 12/13/2012 05:59 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Hello,
I'm about to submit a couple of proposals for presentations at FOSDEM
Done:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_Lightning_-_Qgil http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_DevRoom_-_Qgil
This is why I come here looking for a volunteer teammate full of MediaWiki/Wikimedia love and with some free time in the following weeks.
Julien Dorra replied. Thank you! After a couple of email we are moving the discussion (for now) to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_DevRoom_-_Qgil
There we are starting the discussion about the basic principles for the slides, the creation of a reusable template and how to make slides easy to update and localize.
Your input and help are welcome!