On 9/7/10 4:15 PM, Robert Stojnic wrote:
The community needs to be nurtured, and I think all new employees of the WMF need to be aware of it, and at first interview informed that they will *need* to interact with the community and with volunteer developers.
Just FYI, this was the most-stressed topic during my interviews at the WMF. So I don't think it's a matter of the WMF not being aware of the topic.
I think many programmers who have worked in programming companies are too used to just talking and listening to their team leaders and no-one else.
This is true, but we are trying not to hire this sort of person.
Off the top of my head I would guess at least 75% of the developers here had significant open source experience before being hired, many with Wikimedia projects.