[Wikitech-l] Anonymization, virtualization, and community measurement tools

http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2011/06/29/1 That's my report from visiting June's Open Source Bridge conference. I thought this list might especially want to know about: * A tool to sanitize MySQL databases, to provide realistic but anonymized test data to developers and researchers: https://github.com/davedash/mysql-anonymous * Mozilla on inviting contributors with virtualized dev environments (somewhat like what our ops team is working on): http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/635 & http://decafbad.com/2011/06/os-webdev-vm/slides.html * Community measurement tools: http://opensourcebridge.org/2011/wiki/Online_Community_Metrics:_Tips_and_Te… (Mark and I will probably be using some of these tools) And I got some people volunteering to help with MediaWiki development, bug triage and validation: http://opensourcebridge.org/2011/wiki/What%27s_New_in_MediaWiki_1.17_%26_Ho… So if you see Charles, Jenka, Drew, Shepherd, or Ruth around, that's what they're up to. Thanks to the Foundation for paying for my flight! Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation