On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Gilles Dubuc gilles@wikimedia.org wrote:
personally i really liked your comparison, when we were chatting the
other
day, to an artist in residence -- imo, programmers are the artists of our time and this matches well.
To me the point is to have our engineering more open and collaborative, which in my opinion would also increase pure volunteer contributions as a side effect. This is very hard to do in anything other than a non-profit open source project, I think we're in a position to make very interesting things happen through such efforts.
Such good timing. As a direct result of meeting at Wikimania (thanks Nik Everett), here is an expert from Expedia who would like to contribute to our security efforts. He has posted to the QA mail list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2014-August/001847.html