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_sta… _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

I suppose I can make that :D -- brion

I'm in! Roan

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel(a)brightbyte.de>wrote;wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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!