Hi Brian, I was told by a WMF non-management employee that they have little discretion about which projects they're working on, and that the decisions about priorities come top-down. Hence my interest in engaging with the quarterly planning processes and the people managing those processes to see if there's a way to get community input into the teams' quarterly goals.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
WMF is made up of individuals. If there's something that you think should be done, why not figure out which team it would normally fall under, and politely suggest it to the people on the team that they should make it a priority (If it doesn't fall under any team - lets be realistic, it probably won't be done)
They're either going to say yes or they're going to say no. The better reasoned your argument for why its important, the more likely they are going to say yes.
That said, gsoc/opw usually doesn't reflect Wikimedia community priorities all that much (imo).
-- -bawolff
On 9/28/15, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Quim,
For projects that don't move forward in Outreachy for any reason, is
there
a way of suggesting that the particularly useful open projects get WMF
dev
time next quarter? It would be nice if there is a way to incorporate community priorities into quarterly department goal setting.
Pine On Sep 28, 2015 4:18 AM, "Quim Gil" qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
A new round of Outreachy is about to start and we need mentors for projects.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_11
Mentors go first, because we haven't many confirmed for this round, and
we
have already many possible project ideas:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/
Still, if you want to volunteer as mentor for a new project, the gates
are
also wide open for you.
There are already several candidates looking for a project and asking
for
microtasks to show their skills.
Questions? Just ask, here or at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112620
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