Hi Manuel, et al.,
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Manuel Schneider
<manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch> wrote:
The question at hand is why people don't think
about the consequences
before they act, why central notices are created linking to directly to
pages full of business logic without talking with the people who run
that page first.
+1, I can think of one recent deployment I worked on where they kept
changing the date and then once they finally decided on a date I was
left out of the notification loop!
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Only
destinations tested for the load should be linked.
You could build up gradually to the desired weight. But that's hard to
do if they're going to show up because of a deadline rather than
showing up because they just saw the banner.
Sorry, this discussion is totally off-topic. We have
done this for a
while and it was never neccessary to have another extra IT just for
Wikimania.
I'm not sure I agree. (and don't necessarily disagree either) But, I
think the question of whether they needed some custom work or
something different than what they ended up getting is a small detail.
Maybe there was some public planning or discussion (or even something
on the -team list) that I missed or somehow wasn't subscribed to. But
maybe this is one more an example of how I wish Wikimania were more
like DebConf (
debconf.org). Typically I've wanted to apply the DebConf
model to organization in general and video recording/streaming/etc.
but I imagine this applies just as well to setting up a registration
server. Not saying we should copy everything exactly nor are they
perfect as is but I think they have a good model to learn from.
With DebConf, more work is typically done in house by volunteers that
are interested in what they're working on. (Much like the way enwiki
works, things are typically done by people interested in making them
happen because otherwise they're not done at all. There's rarely or
never any paid staff involved and rarely anyone assigning work for
someone else to do. People are given opportunities to find out about
how something will work early and when someone wants to do something
differently or thinks there's a problem with the something they are
often invited to join in that work themselves.)
Some work is necessarily done out of the public eye (e.g. some
negotiations with potential fiscal sponsors or handling of private
personal info about attendees) but that's the exception rather than
the rule. Most work is planned and discussed in public and the
organizing teams (which are essentially defined as whoever shows up
regular and takes on some work) have regularly scheduled and widely
announced public meetings. (for IRC meetings logs are published very
soon after the meeting. for public meatspace meetings there is usually
no recording but some basic notes are taken and published.)
Some examples:
http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20120703.022020.76785594.en.html
http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20120701.233202.64f18798.en.html
http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20120701.234402.d6ae00ac.en.html
http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20130408.200353.623deacf.en.html
Thanks!
-Jeremy
[[user:jeremyb]]
Wikimedia NYC && Wikimania 2012