Hi!
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:31 AM, Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:43 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:41 PM Subject: [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedia Tool Developers Group
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized the Wikimedia Tool Developers Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group is international cooperative of developers who create
freely-licensed
tools for improving the Wikimedia projects.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group! (...snip...) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Tool_Developers_Group
It's really awesome for me personally to see communities like this form on their own. I'd like to extend an invitation to the new group to collaborate with the Cloud Services team [2] and the Tool Labs standards committee [3] in their program work. Efforts to make it easier for people to develop, maintain, and publicize technical contributions to the Wikimedia movement are important work for our collective future.
Indeed, I was very happy to see this new group formed as well. Let me extend the invitation to collaborate with the Onboarding New Developers program [4] (work in progress), where we are looking for featured projects [5] (also WIP) willing to get help from newcomers. Tools are clearly a good entry point for developers approaching Wikimedia with a fresh mind and new ideas. Current tool developers could also benefit more from our developer support and activities. Having a representative group might definitely help. Let's talk!
Labs_standards_committee
[4]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Onboarding_New_Devel... [5]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Featured_Projects
Bryan
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