Hello all. We are about to kick off the October 2011 Coding Challenge, to which Erik alluded in his emails yesterday. I just wanted to offer a brief word of thanks to all at Wikimedia who have helped to put this together, and express my sense of what it is that we're doing.
This is an experiment. It may be brilliant, or it may not be. Offering a big prize for challenge winners may be a master stroke, or it may be a terrible mistake. The contest may yield lots of smart developers or lots of clueless noobs. There may be a torrent of new voices overwhelming #mediawiki and wikitech-l, or there may be no one at all. I have no idea what to expect, and I'm not about to pretend otherwise. I will be fascinated to see how the next few weeks play out.
One thing I am confident about: from everything I've observed about the Wikimedia technical community so far, I'm not the least bit worried about how noobs will be received. In some communities, this would be a note begging everyone to please, *please* not be to mean to the noobs -- but in this community, I only feel obliged to thank all of you in advance for being helpful and patient, as I know you will be.
If you have any questions or concerns about the contest, feel free to raise them here on the list, or address them to me personally.
--g
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No, really, I think it looks great. I hope we surface lots of wonderful new people :-) Sue
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On 20 October 2011 18:02, Greg DeKoenigsberg greg.dekoenigsberg@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all. We are about to kick off the October 2011 Coding Challenge, to which Erik alluded in his emails yesterday. I just wanted to offer a brief word of thanks to all at Wikimedia who have helped to put this together, and express my sense of what it is that we're doing.
This is an experiment. It may be brilliant, or it may not be. Offering a big prize for challenge winners may be a master stroke, or it may be a terrible mistake. The contest may yield lots of smart developers or lots of clueless noobs. There may be a torrent of new voices overwhelming #mediawiki and wikitech-l, or there may be no one at all. I have no idea what to expect, and I'm not about to pretend otherwise. I will be fascinated to see how the next few weeks play out.
One thing I am confident about: from everything I've observed about the Wikimedia technical community so far, I'm not the least bit worried about how noobs will be received. In some communities, this would be a note begging everyone to please, *please* not be to mean to the noobs -- but in this community, I only feel obliged to thank all of you in advance for being helpful and patient, as I know you will be.
If you have any questions or concerns about the contest, feel free to raise them here on the list, or address them to me personally.
--g
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Would I sound like a reactionary old crank if I asked why the coding challenge welcome page requires JavaScript? Without it, one can't even see the list of challenges!
No. You'd sound like an ideal tester hitting a use case we didn't even consider. Will look into it.
--g On Oct 20, 2011 8:29 PM, "Steve Summit" scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Would I sound like a reactionary old crank if I asked why the coding challenge welcome page requires JavaScript? Without it, one can't even see the list of challenges!
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Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
No. You'd sound like an ideal tester hitting a use case we didn't even consider. Will look into it.
--g
I don't want to sound harsh, Greg but... who are you? It seems it's the first time you post here, yet your email is written as if you were in charge of this.
PS: I've heard ED tastes delicious :)
Well, for the record the overall coding challenge project is being coordinated by Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. ;)
— Patrick
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
No. You'd sound like an ideal tester hitting a use case we didn't even consider. Will look into it.
--g
I don't want to sound harsh, Greg but... who are you? It seems it's the first time you post here, yet your email is written as if you were in charge of this.
PS: I've heard ED tastes delicious :)
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Here is another "new" one, long time since I've been active on this list.
I've been thinking that this coding challenge is a good idea, and I should probably try to whip together something. If I have the time. I like the idea of giving the reader an experience of pages in continuous change, but it should also gin an impression about the present quality. So how to do that without killing caching and responsiveness of the pages ...
jeblad
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Patrick Reilly preilly@wikimedia.org wrote:
Well, for the record the overall coding challenge project is being coordinated by Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. ;)
— Patrick
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
No. You'd sound like an ideal tester hitting a use case we didn't even consider. Will look into it.
--g
I don't want to sound harsh, Greg but... who are you? It seems it's the first time you post here, yet your email is written as if you were in charge of this.
PS: I've heard ED tastes delicious :)
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here is a snippet from an email that Erik send three days ago explaining Gregs role.
subject: Heads up: Online coding challenge
The overall project is being coordinated by Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. If you'd like to be involved as a judge, please let him know (greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail dot com).
--tomasz
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
No. You'd sound like an ideal tester hitting a use case we didn't even consider. Will look into it.
--g
I don't want to sound harsh, Greg but... who are you? It seems it's the first time you post here, yet your email is written as if you were in charge of this.
PS: I've heard ED tastes delicious :)
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On 22/10/11 01:24, Tomasz Finc wrote:
here is a snippet from an email that Erik send three days ago explaining Gregs role.
subject: Heads up: Online coding challenge
The overall project is being coordinated by Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. If you'd like to be involved as a judge, please let him know (greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail dot com).
--tomasz
Heh, good point. I looked for a "We just hired Greg DeKoenigsberg email" didn't think into reading again Erik's mail.
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/10/11 01:24, Tomasz Finc wrote:
here is a snippet from an email that Erik send three days ago explaining Gregs role.
subject: Heads up: Online coding challenge
The overall project is being coordinated by Greg DeKoenigsberg, formerly Senior Community Architect at Red Hat. If you'd like to be involved as a judge, please let him know (greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail dot com).
--tomasz
Heh, good point. I looked for a "We just hired Greg DeKoenigsberg email" didn't think into reading again Erik's mail.
It is a fair point, though. I've been working for the project for a couple of months, so it's my fault that I hadn't communicated to this list before now.
You'll be hearing more from me soon. Particularly when I start begging the wikitech--l cognoscenti to be judges. :)
--g
Hey Greg D-K...nice to see you involved ('bout time) ;-). A coding challenge is a great project for this community. Looking forward to see the results!
Danese
On Oct 20, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg greg.dekoenigsberg@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all. We are about to kick off the October 2011 Coding Challenge, to which Erik alluded in his emails yesterday. I just wanted to offer a brief word of thanks to all at Wikimedia who have helped to put this together, and express my sense of what it is that we're doing.
This is an experiment. It may be brilliant, or it may not be. Offering a big prize for challenge winners may be a master stroke, or it may be a terrible mistake. The contest may yield lots of smart developers or lots of clueless noobs. There may be a torrent of new voices overwhelming #mediawiki and wikitech-l, or there may be no one at all. I have no idea what to expect, and I'm not about to pretend otherwise. I will be fascinated to see how the next few weeks play out.
One thing I am confident about: from everything I've observed about the Wikimedia technical community so far, I'm not the least bit worried about how noobs will be received. In some communities, this would be a note begging everyone to please, *please* not be to mean to the noobs -- but in this community, I only feel obliged to thank all of you in advance for being helpful and patient, as I know you will be.
If you have any questions or concerns about the contest, feel free to raise them here on the list, or address them to me personally.
--g
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