[Wikitech-l] Opening up MediaWiki dev summit in January?

Last year there was an attempt to sort of do this (mostly by extending the word "developer" to mean new things). Largely those types of people didnt attend (although there were a few exceptions), however I remember being left wondering if they did attend, what would they do? It seems to me most sessions were about architecture design decisions that actually didnt affect anyone not working on the code (ie we were going to make the user visible feature either way, the question was do we use method x or method y in the backend). With that in mind. Otoh, its entirely possible that some of the sessions i didnt attend were more applicable to these groups. With that in mind are you proposing the focus of event also change? Or do you think that these groups would be interested in it as is? -- Brian On Thursday, September 1, 2016, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: editors,