OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education. Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce that we're partnering with OpenHatch http://openhatch.org/ to make the upcoming pre-Wikimania hackathon even more useful.
Asheesh Laroia and other OpenHatch folks will be working with Katie Filbert (Aude), Gregory Varnum (Varnent), and me to encourage and aid the Wikimedia technical community, by designing and executing the novice-focused half of the hackathon. You'll see Asheesh in IRC as "paulproteus".
I'm excited that we're working with OpenHatch on this. I've borrowed lessons from OpenHatch in structuring our events and educational materials. They are leaders in teaching new contributors, and in building open source communities' capacity to nurture. With OpenHatch's help with this event (and with the documentation they write), I hope to get scores of semitechnical Wikimedia editors over the barriers to technical contribution.
OpenHatch will, among other tasks: * Develop novice-focused curricula that include tutorials for novices * Design at least three project-based exercises for novices, based on the model OpenHatch created with its Python and open source workshops * Review existing public reference and tutorial material on the topics * Update or write relevant instructional documentation on mediawiki.org, including writing high-quality setup instructions for a new developer's development environment * Find on-the-ground volunteers to help address problems that newcomers will face * Disseminate lessons learned to the Wikimedia community
You'll see Asheesh and his colleagues on the hackathon page at https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon , in IRC channels #mediawiki, #wikimania, and #openhatch, on wikitech-l, on Wikimania's lists, and the new Wikimedia/OpenHatch event list: http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/wmf-outreach-staff .
Welcome!
This sounds fantastic! Thanks everyone for working to make sure that this event is successful and a highly valuable experience for all!
Sincerely, Nicholas Michael Bashour
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Am 18.06.2012 um 14:39 schrieb Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org:
OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education. Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce that we're partnering with OpenHatch http://openhatch.org/ to make the upcoming pre-Wikimania hackathon even more useful.
Asheesh Laroia and other OpenHatch folks will be working with Katie Filbert (Aude), Gregory Varnum (Varnent), and me to encourage and aid the Wikimedia technical community, by designing and executing the novice-focused half of the hackathon. You'll see Asheesh in IRC as "paulproteus".
I'm excited that we're working with OpenHatch on this. I've borrowed lessons from OpenHatch in structuring our events and educational materials. They are leaders in teaching new contributors, and in building open source communities' capacity to nurture. With OpenHatch's help with this event (and with the documentation they write), I hope to get scores of semitechnical Wikimedia editors over the barriers to technical contribution.
OpenHatch will, among other tasks:
- Develop novice-focused curricula that include tutorials for novices
- Design at least three project-based exercises for novices, based on
the model OpenHatch created with its Python and open source workshops
- Review existing public reference and tutorial material on the topics
- Update or write relevant instructional documentation on mediawiki.org,
including writing high-quality setup instructions for a new developer's development environment
- Find on-the-ground volunteers to help address problems that newcomers
will face
- Disseminate lessons learned to the Wikimedia community
You'll see Asheesh and his colleagues on the hackathon page at https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon , in IRC channels #mediawiki, #wikimania, and #openhatch, on wikitech-l, on Wikimania's lists, and the new Wikimedia/OpenHatch event list: http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/wmf-outreach-staff .
Welcome!
-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimania-program mailing list Wikimania-program@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-program
Seems good! See you on Hackathon! On Jun 19, 2012 2:49 AM, "Nicholas Bashour" nicholasbashour@gmail.com wrote:
This sounds fantastic! Thanks everyone for working to make sure that this event is successful and a highly valuable experience for all!
Sincerely, Nicholas Michael Bashour
Sent from my iPhone
Am 18.06.2012 um 14:39 schrieb Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org
:
OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education. Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce that we're partnering with OpenHatch http://openhatch.org/ to make the upcoming pre-Wikimania hackathon even more useful.
Asheesh Laroia and other OpenHatch folks will be working with Katie Filbert (Aude), Gregory Varnum (Varnent), and me to encourage and aid the Wikimedia technical community, by designing and executing the novice-focused half of the hackathon. You'll see Asheesh in IRC as "paulproteus".
I'm excited that we're working with OpenHatch on this. I've borrowed lessons from OpenHatch in structuring our events and educational materials. They are leaders in teaching new contributors, and in building open source communities' capacity to nurture. With OpenHatch's help with this event (and with the documentation they write), I hope to get scores of semitechnical Wikimedia editors over the barriers to technical contribution.
OpenHatch will, among other tasks:
- Develop novice-focused curricula that include tutorials for novices
- Design at least three project-based exercises for novices, based on
the model OpenHatch created with its Python and open source workshops
- Review existing public reference and tutorial material on the topics
- Update or write relevant instructional documentation on mediawiki.org,
including writing high-quality setup instructions for a new developer's development environment
- Find on-the-ground volunteers to help address problems that newcomers
will face
- Disseminate lessons learned to the Wikimedia community
You'll see Asheesh and his colleagues on the hackathon page at https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon , in IRC channels #mediawiki, #wikimania, and #openhatch, on wikitech-l, on Wikimania's lists, and the new Wikimedia/OpenHatch event list: http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/wmf-outreach-staff .
Welcome!
-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimania-program mailing list Wikimania-program@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-program
Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
Hi Sumana,
thanks for sharing these news. Can you please elaborate a bit further what OpenHatch is, in words comprehensible for non-native english speakers?
Am 18.06.2012 20:39, schrieb Sumana Harihareswara:
OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education.
Thanks,
Manuel
OpenHatch is a nonprofit that helps people who may be interested in developing free software by connecting them to the right people and tools.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schneider@wikimedia.ch wrote:
Hi Sumana,
thanks for sharing these news. Can you please elaborate a bit further what OpenHatch is, in words comprehensible for non-native english speakers?
Am 18.06.2012 20:39, schrieb Sumana Harihareswara:
OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education.
Thanks,
Manuel
Regards Manuel Schneider
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch
Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
Am 18.06.2012 23:01, schrieb James Hare:
OpenHatch is a nonprofit that helps people who may be interested in developing free software by connecting them to the right people and tools.
thanks!
Am 18.06.2012 20:40 schrieb "Sumana Harihareswara" sumanah@wikimedia.org:
OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education. Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce that we're partnering with OpenHatch http://openhatch.org/ to make the upcoming pre-Wikimania hackathon even more useful.
Asheesh Laroia and other OpenHatch folks will be working with Katie Filbert (Aude), Gregory Varnum (Varnent), and me to encourage and aid the Wikimedia technical community, by designing and executing the novice-focused half of the hackathon. You'll see Asheesh in IRC as "paulproteus".
I'm excited that we're working with OpenHatch on this. I've borrowed lessons from OpenHatch in structuring our events and educational materials. They are leaders in teaching new contributors, and in building open source communities' capacity to nurture. With OpenHatch's help with this event (and with the documentation they write), I hope to get scores of semitechnical Wikimedia editors over the barriers to technical contribution.
OpenHatch will, among other tasks:
- Develop novice-focused curricula that include tutorials for novices
- Design at least three project-based exercises for novices, based on
the model OpenHatch created with its Python and open source workshops
- Review existing public reference and tutorial material on the topics
- Update or write relevant instructional documentation on mediawiki.org,
including writing high-quality setup instructions for a new developer's development environment
- Find on-the-ground volunteers to help address problems that newcomers
will face
- Disseminate lessons learned to the Wikimedia community
Many thanks for sharing this! Is there any money flow involved im this partnership as well?
Rupert
On 06/19/2012 11:23 AM, rupert THURNER wrote:
Am 18.06.2012 20:40 schrieb "Sumana Harihareswara" sumanah@wikimedia.org:
OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education. Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce that we're partnering with OpenHatch http://openhatch.org/ to make the upcoming pre-Wikimania hackathon even more useful.
Asheesh Laroia and other OpenHatch folks will be working with Katie Filbert (Aude), Gregory Varnum (Varnent), and me to encourage and aid the Wikimedia technical community, by designing and executing the novice-focused half of the hackathon. You'll see Asheesh in IRC as "paulproteus".
I'm excited that we're working with OpenHatch on this. I've borrowed lessons from OpenHatch in structuring our events and educational materials. They are leaders in teaching new contributors, and in building open source communities' capacity to nurture. With OpenHatch's help with this event (and with the documentation they write), I hope to get scores of semitechnical Wikimedia editors over the barriers to technical contribution.
OpenHatch will, among other tasks:
- Develop novice-focused curricula that include tutorials for novices
- Design at least three project-based exercises for novices, based on
the model OpenHatch created with its Python and open source workshops
- Review existing public reference and tutorial material on the topics
- Update or write relevant instructional documentation on mediawiki.org,
including writing high-quality setup instructions for a new developer's development environment
- Find on-the-ground volunteers to help address problems that newcomers
will face
- Disseminate lessons learned to the Wikimedia community
Many thanks for sharing this! Is there any money flow involved im this partnership as well?
Rupert
Thanks for the question, Rupert. Yes, the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department is paying OpenHatch for this work. We hired OpenHatch as a contractor.
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 06/19/2012 11:23 AM, rupert THURNER wrote:
Am 18.06.2012 20:40 schrieb "Sumana Harihareswara" sumanah@wikimedia.org:
OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools, and education. Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce that we're partnering with OpenHatch http://openhatch.org/ to make the upcoming pre-Wikimania hackathon even more useful.
Asheesh Laroia and other OpenHatch folks will be working with Katie
btw, jessica mckellar from openhatch was in zürich a couple of weeks ago, giving a keynote of djangocon europe 2012 ... and btw a quite interesting talk about "accessibility": http://klewel.com/conferences/djangocon-2012/index.php?talkID=35
rupert.
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