Dear all,
If there is a summer of code, could you contact us , because we have just
making this offline reader :
==> it will be available for all the project of
the WMF, when all the zenos files are creating.
==> it s our search engine available
...
...
Cordialement
Martin Pascal
tel : 02 32 40 23 69, fax : 02 32 61 45 26
gsm : 06 13 89 77 32
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Whitworth" <wknight8111(a)gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
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Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] "wiki (usability) summer" - like google summerof
code?
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
GSoC has never produced anything useful for us,
so I don't know why you
think it would be a good model.
But it has produced useful results for a number of other open source
software communities, so I don't think it's prudent to kick the idea
out the window just yet. What's needed to make a system like GSoC work
is to have a large team of prospective mentors, effort to integrate
the volunteers into the community, etc. I've seen other groups who
have been very successful from this program, adding a large portion of
students as active committers after the program is over. If MediaWiki
hasn't been as successful, it might be worthwhile figuring out what is
being done differently from those projects which are more successful.
The idea of a collection of remote workers paid
by the line of code might
sound nice to an online community member, but I'm beginning to think that
it's risky at best. A software development team working in an office
together might be old-school, but at least the management practices are
established, with good results commonly produced.
I've heard the idea of code bounties discussed before, maybe that's a
model that's worth reconsidering. Take your existing development staff
and ancillary contributors and offer firm cash rewards for specific
features. Ideally new contributors will join the effort in pursuit of
these rewards. Again, something to consider.
--Andrew Whitwoth
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