Actually, I wasn't a manager. I've generally worked in small flat team structures where someone is 'nominally' the manager, but everyone gets to know what decisions are likely to be before getting cast in stone.

Ten months should be enough for a good developer to do a small-medium sized project if you get the data structures right as early on as possible. Where you're potentially going to have legwork is in making anything developed translatable.

I currently have no ideas for any projects, but if someone comes up with something I'm happy to chip in and try and get it better defined.

Brian.

-----Original Message----- From: wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Milos Rancic Sent: 26 July 2009 19:19 To: Wikinews mailing list Subject: [Wikinews-l] Possible project

I've got information that it is possible to make a project related to Wikinews. The main target will be sr.wn, but I want to make something from which would benefit all Wikinews editions, too.

My main target is making programs. And my main idea is making bots (completing Weather bot and making bots for harvesting different kinds of data...). However, it may be a MediaWiki extension, too.

I expect that I'll have a budget for a programmer for 3-10 months. (I'll do the best to have a programmer for 10 months.)

So, what are your opinions toward that? What would you like to have? Also, if you have an idea how to spend money in other ways, please let me know. (Keep in mind that it is not a lot of money, because I am counting on programmer's salaries in Serbia.)

Besides that, Brian, you are/were manager in software development group... I don't have a precise idea what can be made for, let's say, one programmer/month and what we may realistically expect for 3, 5 or 10 months of programming.

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