On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 2:07 PM Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am interested in submitting an "Intro to Toolhub" talk for Wikimania. Srishti and I have a slide deck that we have been building up, most recently presented during the Hackathon. Presentations by Foundation staff on products at Wikimania have not however been the easiest thing to get past the program selection committee however (for good reason honestly).
I'm wondering if any of you fine non-Foundation staff folks would be interested in working with Srishti and I on a proposal and presentation that would be a bit less "the Foundation has arrived to solve your problems" and a bit more "here's a interesting and complex problem for the movement and an attempt to make some progress on resolving it"?
I have submitted a proposal for a 30 minute "lecture" titled 'How to find tools to improve your workflows' [0]. Here's the abstract:
== How to find tools to improve your workflows ==
There is a rich ecosystem of "tools" built by volunteers, affiliates, and Foundation staff to help fill in workflow gaps in the Wikimedia movement. There are thousands of bots, user scripts, web services, gadgets, desktop apps, and phone apps out there. Maybe even one that makes the exact thing you are trying to do easier (or possible). But how do you find them? And if you find one, how do you know if it will still be working a month or a year from now?
Learn more about the Toolhub tools catalog. Folks should leave the session with a general understanding of the historic gaps in tool discovery that Toolhub is trying to fill today, and some of the ideas that are being worked on to make it even more useful in the future.
I would still love to add others as co-presenters for the talk. If you are interested, let me know!
[0]: https://pretalx.com/individuals-collectives-session-submission-2021/talk/rev...
Bryan