Hi all!
Ask you may know, there will be an "Ask the Developers" panel at Wikimania. However, there are no developers to ask, yet :) To make this work, we need a few lead WMF developers on the stage, ready to answer questions. So please let me know if you would be willing to do that, or tell me who I could ask to take part in the panel.
In any case I want to invite all developers to be there at least in the audience, so specific questions can be answered directly by someone working on that topic. Originally, this sessions was planned as a "fish bowl" type discussion on Danes' suggestion, which would remove the distinction between panelists and audience. But since she won't be there and I don't have any experience with that kind of thing, it's going to be a regular panel.
The session is scheduled in the block starting on 10:15 on Friday. Shortly before that, Guillome has his "Wikimedia technical staff vs. the_World" - perhaps we could arrange to combine or rather links these two events? Have the "ask the devs" basically as the discussion round to "staff vs. world"? What do you think?
See you in Haifa, hopefully for the Hacking Days already....
-- daniel
* http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Ask_the_Developers
* http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_technical_staf...
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
Hi all!
Ask you may know, there will be an "Ask the Developers" panel at Wikimania. However, there are no developers to ask, yet :) To make this work, we need a few lead WMF developers on the stage, ready to answer questions. So please let me know if you would be willing to do that, or tell me who I could ask to take part in the panel.
I'm in!
Roan
I suppose I can make that :D
-- brion
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.dewrote:
Hi all!
Ask you may know, there will be an "Ask the Developers" panel at Wikimania. However, there are no developers to ask, yet :) To make this work, we need a few lead WMF developers on the stage, ready to answer questions. So please let me know if you would be willing to do that, or tell me who I could ask to take part in the panel.
In any case I want to invite all developers to be there at least in the audience, so specific questions can be answered directly by someone working on that topic. Originally, this sessions was planned as a "fish bowl" type discussion on Danes' suggestion, which would remove the distinction between panelists and audience. But since she won't be there and I don't have any experience with that kind of thing, it's going to be a regular panel.
The session is scheduled in the block starting on 10:15 on Friday. Shortly before that, Guillome has his "Wikimedia technical staff vs. the_World" - perhaps we could arrange to combine or rather links these two events? Have the "ask the devs" basically as the discussion round to "staff vs. world"? What do you think?
See you in Haifa, hopefully for the Hacking Days already....
-- daniel
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_technical_staf...
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On 31.07.2011 19:56, Brion Vibber wrote:
I suppose I can make that :D
-- brion
On 31.07.2011 17:21, Roan Kattouw wrote:
I'm in!
Roan
Thanks guys! Let's talk about the details during the Dev Days. And perhaps we can shanghai one or two more folks for the panel. Any suggestions?
-- daniel
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.dewrote:
Hi all!
Ask you may know, there will be an "Ask the Developers" panel at Wikimania. However, there are no developers to ask, yet :) To make this work, we need a few lead WMF developers on the stage, ready to answer questions. So please let me know if you would be willing to do that, or tell me who I could ask to take part in the panel.
In any case I want to invite all developers to be there at least in the audience, so specific questions can be answered directly by someone working on that topic. Originally, this sessions was planned as a "fish bowl" type discussion on Danes' suggestion, which would remove the distinction between panelists and audience. But since she won't be there and I don't have any experience with that kind of thing, it's going to be a regular panel.
The session is scheduled in the block starting on 10:15 on Friday. Shortly before that, Guillome has his "Wikimedia technical staff vs. the_World" - perhaps we could arrange to combine or rather links these two events? Have the "ask the devs" basically as the discussion round to "staff vs. world"? What do you think?
See you in Haifa, hopefully for the Hacking Days already....
-- daniel
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_technical_staf...
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Fish bowl is easy. You have two concentric circles of chairs. The inner circle are the people speaking. When someone in the inner circle has spoken their piece, they get up, and somebody from the outer circle can move in. Less pressure on the speakers to say something. If you have nothing sensible to say, you get up! ________________________________________ From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Daniel Kinzler [daniel@brightbyte.de] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 3:30 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] "Ask the Developers" panel at Wikimania
On 31.07.2011 19:56, Brion Vibber wrote:
I suppose I can make that :D
-- brion
On 31.07.2011 17:21, Roan Kattouw wrote:
I'm in!
Roan
Thanks guys! Let's talk about the details during the Dev Days. And perhaps we can shanghai one or two more folks for the panel. Any suggestions?
-- daniel
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.dewrote:
Hi all!
Ask you may know, there will be an "Ask the Developers" panel at Wikimania. However, there are no developers to ask, yet :) To make this work, we need a few lead WMF developers on the stage, ready to answer questions. So please let me know if you would be willing to do that, or tell me who I could ask to take part in the panel.
In any case I want to invite all developers to be there at least in the audience, so specific questions can be answered directly by someone working on that topic. Originally, this sessions was planned as a "fish bowl" type discussion on Danes' suggestion, which would remove the distinction between panelists and audience. But since she won't be there and I don't have any experience with that kind of thing, it's going to be a regular panel.
The session is scheduled in the block starting on 10:15 on Friday. Shortly before that, Guillome has his "Wikimedia technical staff vs. the_World" - perhaps we could arrange to combine or rather links these two events? Have the "ask the devs" basically as the discussion round to "staff vs. world"? What do you think?
See you in Haifa, hopefully for the Hacking Days already....
-- daniel
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_technical_staf...
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On 01.08.2011 15:50, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson wrote:
Fish bowl is easy. You have two concentric circles of chairs. The inner circle are the people speaking. When someone in the inner circle has spoken their piece, they get up, and somebody from the outer circle can move in. Less pressure on the speakers to say something. If you have nothing sensible to say, you get up!
yea, the mechanics are easy enough, but i have the impression that you need to have a bit of experience to actually make it work. especially if the outer circle is 50 people - or 200, who knows. Also, we'll probably not be able to change the room layout too much, so circles may not be possible at all. I'll ask dror about that if i see him tonight.
-- daniel
Well, maybe Danese was doing some psycho-calisthenics behind my back, but the few times I've done it with her, the only direction she made was to notice a few times that people were continuing to speak longer than they ought. But y'know, a panel can do the same thing, so no magic wand necessary. ________________________________________ From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Daniel Kinzler [daniel@brightbyte.de] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 11:54 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] "Ask the Developers" panel at Wikimania
On 01.08.2011 15:50, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson wrote:
Fish bowl is easy. You have two concentric circles of chairs. The inner circle are the people speaking. When someone in the inner circle has spoken their piece, they get up, and somebody from the outer circle can move in. Less pressure on the speakers to say something. If you have nothing sensible to say, you get up!
yea, the mechanics are easy enough, but i have the impression that you need to have a bit of experience to actually make it work. especially if the outer circle is 50 people - or 200, who knows. Also, we'll probably not be able to change the room layout too much, so circles may not be possible at all. I'll ask dror about that if i see him tonight.
-- daniel
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