On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 1:36 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Who specifically are the organizers of the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017?
Rachel Farrand is the event organizer and I am the budget owner. We want to bootstrap an actual organization team this year, and I have shared our current idas at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tb8g53x15wvhoc5e
I have a question for the organizers: will the summit be open to anyone or will it be invitation-only as it has been in past years? Who decides this?
Rachel and I ultimately decide how the Summit registration works.
We are leaning toward invitation-only precisely to support the idea of "open to anyone". As explained in [0] and [1], we want to reach out to different audiences that usually haven't got much representation in the Summit, we have a capacity limit, and we want to avoid that the regular participants of the Summit takes all seats just because they already know they want to attend and register sooner.
"Invitation-only" would mean that anyone can fill the form to request registration free of charge, but their request would need to be accepted in order to become confirmed participants of the Summit. Another piece of context is that we are interested in improving remote participation, where the limitations of event capacity and travel costs don't apply.
[0] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086448.html ("AUDIENCE") [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086468.html
Regarding main topics, I think we should make it easier to log in to
Wikimedia wikis and control your identity when on-wiki. Specifically, supporting login via e-mail address, case-insensitive login, and a user-configurable "display name" field that's shown in page histories, on user pages, etc.
Added to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Tb6bztglijowk8x3 (anyone with suggestions for main Summit topics can do so too).
I'm interested in volunteering to provide feedback about the upcoming summit. I've attended one or two summits in the past and I have thoughts.
Please go ahead and share your feedback in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2017. You can also provide feedback about specific tasks underhttps:// phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-summit/, and we keep monitoring wikitech-l.