What if the Foundation were to take advantage of the large number of researchers that are closely associated with the organization and could potentially serve as mentors? I don't know for certain that they would be willing to fill that role, but they might, and I can see a lot of code coming out of it that benefits the project.
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Brian wrote:
They begin accepting applications for mentoring organizations in two
days.
Any word on this?
We're still very short-handed, so we'll see what we can do. We haven't really been able to support more than one or two projects in the last couple years.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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On 05/03/2008, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
What if the Foundation were to take advantage of the large number of researchers that are closely associated with the organization and could potentially serve as mentors? I don't know for certain that they would be willing to fill that role, but they might, and I can see a lot of code coming out of it that benefits the project.
Two projects I could see the Foundation sponsoring for technical issues would be WYSIWYG editing and an improved mechanism for wiki based threaded discussions, but I know have been brought up before, but they are issues that wiki technology doesn't exactly excel in yet so it would be a start. Improved referencing methods in wiki's may also be another topic which could be investigated at the technical level.
Peter Ansell
I can not find pages about "Summer of Code 2008" on meta.
Will WMF be a mentoring organization in this event? Should we setup a page on meta to discuss all the proposals?
My proposal: A student from China want to work on a git-based wiki implement which may related to our projects. It might not be very useful immediately, but a proof of new concept.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
What if the Foundation were to take advantage of the large number of researchers that are closely associated with the organization and could potentially serve as mentors? I don't know for certain that they would be willing to fill that role, but they might, and I can see a lot of code coming out of it that benefits the project.
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Brian wrote:
They begin accepting applications for mentoring organizations in two
days.
Any word on this?
We're still very short-handed, so we'll see what we can do. We haven't really been able to support more than one or two projects in the last couple years.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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