I think it's worth answering [and perhaps having a discussion there
rather than over email] before going too far forward with this chapter
process. As you may have gathered I am not yet convinced a chapter is
a useful or needed structure for this community.
At any rate, I am very, very busy with my day job and other
wikiprojects for at least the next couple of months, so will not be
able to assist with a chapter for the foreseeable future. I am of
course happy to continue working to plan events for our meetup group
over the summer, including wikiconf west, which I don't think will
require chapter support to be a success (if it exists, great, but it's
not a prerequisite for this sort of event).
best,
Phoebe
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On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:43 AM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Here are the names of the students who signed up on
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010/Student_signup and
proposed Google Summer of Code projects which were scored positively by
Foundation mentors, but could not be accepted because the Foundation did not
request enough slots from Google:
Cam V., Damon, Johan G., Laszlo K., Meadowlark B., Maciej S., Michael W.,
Neeraj A., Ryan M., Shubhandra.
Some of those students' projects were depricated because the mentors thought
they might need more than a summer. I think they would all make excellent
Chapter projects and I'm willing to do what it takes to see that they
succeed.
The Chapter will need officers, and I will be supporting those candidates
who would like to work for the Chapter and want to see the California
Chapter become the best of all Foundation Chapters.
If Phoebe, Jon, and/or Brion want to work for the Chapter full- or
part-time, and support the mentors' positively-scored GSoC student proposals
as Chapter projects, Chapter server hardware benchmarking and bake-offs,
Maker Faire as a Chapter project, and the West Coast Wikipedia Day
unconference all as Chapter projects, then I would be happy to nominate them
as Chapter Director, Assistant Director, and Chief Engineer respectively.
Sincerely,
James Salsman
On May 4, 2010 10:49 PM, "James Salsman" <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Jon,
Yes, please start a page on Meta with cache, memory, and mass storage
geometries for all the different classes of servers in use if there isn't
one already. A lot of MySQL users are reporting large speed-ups with flash
instead of disk, and we should measure the price/performance of local
vendors for that. FusionIO got a decent write-up in the April ;Login:
magazine.
Also we should agendize and fund the MakerFaire booth so if someone forgets
to buy something we need for it whoever ends up paying for it can get
reimbursed.
Also, the West Coast Wikipedia Day unconference should be a project so we
can afford to host it.
Can we all agree to conduct business on the email list, or should we try to
conduct business on Meta? I'm partial to trying to conduct business on Meta
for the purposes of eating our own dog food.
Regards,
James Salsman
On May 4, 2010 10:19 PM, "Jon Davis" <wiki(a)konsoletek.com> wrote:
I'm all for uber toolserve...
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 21:35, James Salsman
<jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Geoff,
Thank you for your hard work on requesting the Chapter mailing list and
for serv...
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