Hi,
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Gilles Dubuc gilles@wikimedia.org wrote:
asking corporations with software engineering staff if they would be willing to let their employees volunteer their expertise and time to mediawiki while ideally still being on their employer's payroll. I mean engineering in the wide sense of the term, including Ops, QA, etc. and maybe even UX.
SocialCoding4Good puts in touch companies with open source projects. We are nominally collaborating for a couple of years now, although for a reason or another we haven't go any volunteers. See http://www.socialcoding4good.org/organizations/wikimedia
From the WMF side we haven't insisted much either, partially because of our
growth in internships via outreach programs, partially because I wasn't sure how willing would be our dev teams to try this model (this was before Aron Arcos joined us as volunteer). If you are interested, we can ping them back.