On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@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? :)