On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I think what should be done here is to define exactly
what it is we're
hoping to get from the participation of template creators, and what we hope
they get from attending the summit. Perhaps several sessions around
templates should be organised.
Just to be clear, by starting this thread I didn't mean that we *must* have
topics at the Summit for template, bot, gadget, tool, apps, and third party
developers. The intend is to improve our outreach to these groups to assure
that they have a chance to propose topics relevant for them and to
participate in the Summit with the "usual suspects".
If there is a great response from i.e. template developers and we up having
several sessions, great. If the related developers have been invited to the
Summit but nobody seems to have a topic or care enough to push for it, that
is fine as well.
By the way, the same can be said about any area of the MediaWiki
architecture and the extensions expanding our platform. If apparent hot
topics popular in wikitech-l and your favorite Phabricator tasks don't
reach a critical mass of structured interest, we as organizers of the
Summit will not push for them either. The topics discussed at the Wikimedia
Developer Summit will be one by one the topics pushed by the Wikimedia
developers.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-summit-2016/ is
still empty. Who will be the first one landing a proposal there? :)
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