Yesterday we opened the travel request process for Wikimedia Foundation employees in Engineering and Product willing to participate at the Wikimedia Hackathon or Wikimania. There is no public link, but you can follow this task at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89355
In this process, we are asking WMF employees to find a hackathon buddy with the sole requirement of not being another WMF employee. In fact, in the registration for the hackathons we will request the same to all participants.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Pairing_buddies
This means that non-WMF contributors might receive a request from a WMF employee to be hackathon buddies. This also means that if you are planning to participate in any of these events (and especially if you plan to request travel sponsorship to Lyon) you will be encouraged to find a buddy as well.
It's going to be fun. :) And no worries, we will help making connections to whoever needs that help.
Is there any limit for a number of buddies? I suppose that one WMF employee can have more than 1 non-WMF buddy, otherwise the limit of non-WMF people at hackathon would equal number of employees :P
P.S. I no have a buddy :'( no one lieks me
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yesterday we opened the travel request process for Wikimedia Foundation employees in Engineering and Product willing to participate at the Wikimedia Hackathon or Wikimania. There is no public link, but you can follow this task at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89355
In this process, we are asking WMF employees to find a hackathon buddy with the sole requirement of not being another WMF employee. In fact, in the registration for the hackathons we will request the same to all participants.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Pairing_buddies
This means that non-WMF contributors might receive a request from a WMF employee to be hackathon buddies. This also means that if you are planning to participate in any of these events (and especially if you plan to request travel sponsorship to Lyon) you will be encouraged to find a buddy as well.
It's going to be fun. :) And no worries, we will help making connections to whoever needs that help.
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any limit for a number of buddies?
Let's not overcomplicate things.
I suppose that one WMF employee can have more than 1 non-WMF buddy, otherwise the limit of non-WMF people at hackathon would equal number of employees :P
Revise your algorithm. :) While WMF employees must find non-WMF buddies, non-WMF employees can buddy up with other non-WMF employees.
Pine, the initial idea of the buddies came up in an Engineering Community team meeting around the MediaWiki Developer Summit a few weeks ago. We have discussed it a bit in a couple of Phabricator tasks, a wiki page, and (in the past 24 hours) in two mailing lists. I don't think the Wikimedia Conference in Germany or any other event currently scheduled has even heard about this concept. If you like it, please advocate for it. :)
Thanks. Forwarding to Ellie for her consideration.
Pine On Feb 19, 2015 11:41 AM, "Quim Gil" qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any limit for a number of buddies?
Let's not overcomplicate things.
I suppose that one WMF employee can have more than 1 non-WMF buddy, otherwise the limit of non-WMF people at hackathon would equal number of employees :P
Revise your algorithm. :) While WMF employees must find non-WMF buddies, non-WMF employees can buddy up with other non-WMF employees.
Pine, the initial idea of the buddies came up in an Engineering Community team meeting around the MediaWiki Developer Summit a few weeks ago. We have discussed it a bit in a couple of Phabricator tasks, a wiki page, and (in the past 24 hours) in two mailing lists. I don't think the Wikimedia Conference in Germany or any other event currently scheduled has even heard about this concept. If you like it, please advocate for it. :) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
On Feb 19, 2015 2:55 PM, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks. Forwarding to Ellie for her consideration.
Ellie doesn't seem to be mentioned on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015 or in it's edit history. So probably the wrong person. Maybe try the talk page there. But also give some reason why it would be applicable, advance a goal, etc. And it couldn't be ported directly because there's more classes of people e.g. chapters' folks.
(not sure what is or isn't in scope for her job but certainly the focus is Wikimania and she'd need to focus on that while the Germany conference planning is at its peak)
-Jeremy
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
P.S. I no have a buddy :'( no one lieks me
Others have conveyed the same message in different ways. Let's proceed with the experiment: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015/Buddies
(The Wikimania site is still lacking a Hackathon page in the first place -- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88405 )
This is a great idea, Quim.
Will the same concept apply to the Wikimedia Conference in Germany?
Pine On Feb 19, 2015 6:57 AM, "Quim Gil" qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Yesterday we opened the travel request process for Wikimedia Foundation employees in Engineering and Product willing to participate at the Wikimedia Hackathon or Wikimania. There is no public link, but you can follow this task at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89355
In this process, we are asking WMF employees to find a hackathon buddy with the sole requirement of not being another WMF employee. In fact, in the registration for the hackathons we will request the same to all participants.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Pairing_buddies
This means that non-WMF contributors might receive a request from a WMF employee to be hackathon buddies. This also means that if you are planning to participate in any of these events (and especially if you plan to request travel sponsorship to Lyon) you will be encouraged to find a buddy as well.
It's going to be fun. :) And no worries, we will help making connections to whoever needs that help.
-- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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