http://gracehopper.org/2013/conference/grace-hopper-open-source-day/
"The purpose of Grace Hopper Open Source Day is to give attendees of the conference and some of our friends from local universities the opportunity to code, network and contribute to the greater social good."
I was going to lead this. But if possible, I'd like to concentrate on my sabbatical and give someone else a chance to guide these folks (mostly women who are studying computer science as grad students or undergraduates). I can give you instructions and task lists for how to help these MediaWiki/Wikimedia newbies started. And WMF can pay for you to get to Minneapolis and stay overnight for a few nights. (The closer you are, the better.)
Can you help?
I'd like to get this taken care of by the end of this Friday; please email me off-list if you're interested. Thanks.
As someone who attended this last year, I think that having a specific small project/goal in mind would be very helpful -- many attendees seemed to enjoy the projects where they could show off what they did in the end.
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
http://gracehopper.org/2013/conference/grace-hopper-open-source-day/
"The purpose of Grace Hopper Open Source Day is to give attendees of the conference and some of our friends from local universities the opportunity to code, network and contribute to the greater social good."
I was going to lead this. But if possible, I'd like to concentrate on my sabbatical and give someone else a chance to guide these folks (mostly women who are studying computer science as grad students or undergraduates). I can give you instructions and task lists for how to help these MediaWiki/Wikimedia newbies started. And WMF can pay for you to get to Minneapolis and stay overnight for a few nights. (The closer you are, the better.)
Can you help?
I'd like to get this taken care of by the end of this Friday; please email me off-list if you're interested. Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
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Very fair point! Last year, we had people with such varied skills that we offered three projects:
- Easy: Editing Wikipedia and Wikiquote for the first time - Medium: Customizing your Wikipedia experience with JavaScript and CSS - Challenging: Creating your first patch & learning to use Git
People who edited for the first time had a reasonably rewarding time but wanted more interesting tasks once they got the hang of it; this year we can use GuidedTour and we can check http://outreach.wikimedia.org/ for a better structure. A few people liked the medium and challenging tasks, but they got stuck a lot, and I don't think we got much followup. So this year I'd be interested in helping intermediate and advanced folks code up simple bots so they can see how to play with our API. That seems more likely to be a skill they can use in the long term, and we have API and pywikipedia tutorials to use.
Hey Sumana,
I'm have a table in the Student Opportunities Lab where I'll be talking to students about contributing to open source. I would love to help, and if there are other people interested, we could pair up. I'm in Texas, so I'm not super close, but let me know if you'll need me.
Also, congrats on your acceptance into Hacker School. I'm so excited for you!
-Valerie
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.orgwrote:
http://gracehopper.org/2013/conference/grace-hopper-open-source-day/
"The purpose of Grace Hopper Open Source Day is to give attendees of the conference and some of our friends from local universities the opportunity to code, network and contribute to the greater social good."
I was going to lead this. But if possible, I'd like to concentrate on my sabbatical and give someone else a chance to guide these folks (mostly women who are studying computer science as grad students or undergraduates). I can give you instructions and task lists for how to help these MediaWiki/Wikimedia newbies started. And WMF can pay for you to get to Minneapolis and stay overnight for a few nights. (The closer you are, the better.)
Can you help?
I'd like to get this taken care of by the end of this Friday; please email me off-list if you're interested. Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
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Thanks, Valerie! Am coordinating with you off-list.
OK, I have 1 person volunteering, do I hear two? :D Since there will be at least fifteen people there to learn about and work on Wikimedia tech, having a helper there will be super .... helpful. :-)
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