A suggestion would be to host a annual cloud (remote) hackathon type event
where participants can join via hangouts. I'd be willing to help organize
this if need be. I think it would help users that may not be comfortable
traveling or don't feel like applying for travel funds from WMF or don't
have the funds in general. I also think this would help users that aren't
per say developers get their issues heard and worked on without waiting
months for a task to be seen/replied/worked on. It could also be used by
developers to talk with WMF staff "face to face". However, I do think as
well that WMF team meetings should be documented and transcribed (for
public viewing at least) keeping in mind obvious security concerns and such
redacted of course.
Any questions? Feel free to reply to me here, ask on freenode, or on my
User page on enwiki.
Thank you,
Zppix
Volunteer Developer for WMF
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 7:22 PM, NISHITH SHETTY <
shettynishith.mca(a)mmcoe.edu.in> wrote:
We are really excited to let you know about the
Angelhack hackathon which
is due to be hosted in Pune on MAY 20-21, 2017. The event access page is
http://angelhack.com/angelhack-global-hackathon-series-pune/
We would like you to be a part of the whole event as a non-profit and let
the participants help you as part of the Code for a cause challenge.
Code For A Cause is welcoming nonprofits worldwide to join us at our 10th
Global Hackathon Series, to inspire our global community to leverage their
skills for good and give back to their local communities.
We’ll be rolling out the AngelHack-red carpet for nonprofits at each and
every event, all we ask in return is that the nonprofits create a challenge
to inspire our hackers! To nominate your nonprofit, please fill out this
form
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FDslsB50BM8Whm5wmlCQMWcJrmrqR
YY_m_n9pI50wLc/>.
Selections will be accepted on a rolling basis.
Thanks and regards
Nishith Shetty
9527444568 <(952)%20744-4568>
On Apr 27, 2017 08:42, "Victoria Coleman" <vcoleman(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi Isarra,
thank you for the question. We want to support our diverse technical
communities in a variety of ways. One of our key tools are the
hackathons,
where we hope to welcome both seasoned and new
volunteer developers. We
want to support them not just by providing a series of events but also
with
tools and WMF staff time. These are the key goals
of our new Wikimedia
Cloud Services team. They build and make labs and tools available and
participate in the hackathons to onboard newcomers and in general assist
volunteers. Another key change we are making this year is creating the
MediaWiki Platform team who as well as doing much needed work on the
codebase will also facilitate contributions and planning with the
volunteer
community by publishing a roadmap. And as Quim
notes below we are
changing
the nature of the Dev Summit to have it focus on
the strategic technology
issues and decisions the Movement is faced with. As such it is an event
that might appeal more to the seasoned members of our community.
Attendance
for the summit will be decided on the basis of
position papers for WMF
staff and volunteers alike. I am personally excited about the lineup of
events this coming year. But as always we learn and adapt. If we
collectively decide to try for a different configuration the following
year, we can totally do that. Please keep the feedback coming!
Best regards,
Victoria
On Apr 26, 2017, at 12:23 PM, Isarra Yos
<zhorishna(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Regarding the Developers Summit in particular, how do you plan to
reconcile making
the event smaller with your goal of better retention of
newcomers and volunteers in general when that's often the only venue they
have at which to discuss the high-level technical issues with other
stakeholders? Volunteer and third-party developers are not privy to most
of
the usual venues afforded to WMF staff such as
inter-team meetings and
events, and yet they make up an important part of the overall stakeholder
community that these issues impact. They - we - need to be able to
participate in these discussions, and the Developers Summit is one of
very
few opportunities even open to us where we can
make our voices heard.
-I
On 20/04/17 07:28, Quim Gil wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Quim Gil<qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi, the Wikimedia Foundation has published a draft of its Annual Plan
>> FY2017-18
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft>
>>> and it welcomes your review.
>>>
>>> I want to highlight here the improvements that we are proposing to
the
>>
developer events (co)organized by the WMF. From local to global:
>>
>> The Technical Collaboration team proposes to combine multiple
activities
>> (often disconnected) in a single program
focusing on onboarding new
>> developers
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft/Programs/Community_Engagement#
Program_12:_Onboarding_new_developers>. We
>> want to work with the Wikimedia technical
community to bring a new
wave of
>>> developers to our projects, and events play an important role.
>>>
>>> Local developer events
>>> We want to support developers and organizations willing to reach out
to
>>
specific groups and geographies. We are hoping to see many local
developer
>> meetups and small hackathons or workshops
around the World, starting
small
>>> and simple. We should be able to offer introductory materials,
contacts
>>
with Wikimedia developers in the region, maybe travel budget to send
>> experienced volunteers to help mentoring the in the bigger events,
maybe
>>> travel budget to invite the best newcomers to our regional and global
>>> events.
>>>
>>> Adding tech to regional Wikimedia events
>>> Last year we experimented organizing technical workshops in
WikiArabia,
>>
and others have done similar efforts in other regional events (for
>> instance, a small hackathon next to WikiConference India). We want to
work
>> with the organizers of these regional
events in order to attract
>> experienced Wikimedia developers and newcomers, organize developer
>> activities, and also improve the collaboration between the technical
and
>>> non-technical contributors in these regions.
>>>
>>> Better retention of newcomers at the Wikimedia and Wikimania
hackathons
>>
Although we don't expect major changes in the organization of the
>> Wikimedia Hackathon and the hackathon at Wikimania, we want to focus
better
>>> on new developers onboarding and retention. In every Hackathon we
meet
many
>>> new developers, but the retention rates are very low. We want to
review
>>
what we can do before, during, and after these apparently successful
events
>> in order to retain newcomers better. One
hypothesis is that we should
focus
>> call for participation, scholarships, and
Wikimedia Foundation
>> participation in providing a great experience to new volunteers who
have
>> gone through local and regional events,
and also "junior" developers
coming
>> from wiki projects through the
development of bots, gadgets, tools,
>> templates.
>>
>> A smaller and more focused Wikimedia Developer Summit
>> After some discussions between Community Engagement, Technology, and
>> Product, we have decided to propose a different approach for the
Wikimedia
>> Developer Summit. Organized by the
Technology department as part of
their technical
>> community building
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Draft/Programs/Technology#Program_4:
_Technical_community_building>
>> efforts, we want the Summit to finally
become the venue where the
toughest
>> technical problems are discussed between
the stakeholders directly
related.
>> We want to reduce the size/budget of the
event, separate it from the
WMF
>> AllHands,
>>
> Due to travel budget considerations, the Summit still might be
connected to
>> the WMF AllHands.
>>
>>
>>> and define its main themes well in advance.
>>>
>>> A Program
Committee<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160996>
would
>>> decide these main themes to be
discussed at the Summit. We also want
to
>>
explore the possibility of tackling some of these themes at the
Wikimedia
>>> Hackathon and Wikimania, where we could get most stakeholders
involved
with
>> just a little extra effort (since many of
them would be attending
anyway).
>>>
>>> We believe that this approach will serve better the Wikimedia
technical
>>
community that we have, and also the the community that we want to
have,
> with
a new wave of developers joining our various projects.
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
>
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
>
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